Silvia Camporesi

Silvia Camporesi transforms reality into dreamlike tales through a creative process that leads her to confront and dialogue with suggestions from painting, cinema, myth and literature. In L’Iniziato (The Initiate) (2005) from the series Indizi Terrestri (Terrestrial Clues), Camporesi mimes the figure of Lucius, the protagonist of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, transformed into a donkey by the sorceress Photides who makes a mistake with the jar of magic ointment. Remedy to the wrong metamorphosis is to eat crowns of roses.

Silvia Camporesi transforms reality into dreamlike tales through a creative process that leads her to confront and dialogue with suggestions from painting, cinema, myth and literature. In The Skywalker, from the third part of Esercizi per il ritorno (Exercises for the come-back) of the series Indizi Terrestri (Terrestrial Clues), Camporesi proposes herself (the photograph is also a self-portrait) as the traveler who completes her ascesis and crosses mysteries and knowledge to arrive at the elevation of thought and the overcoming of her own limits.

Silvia Camporesi transforms reality into dreamlike tales through a creative process that leads her to confront and dialogue with suggestions from painting, cinema, myth and literature. L’isola dei morti, il cimitero di San Michele (The island of the dead, the cemetery of San Michele) is part of the series La Terza Venezia (The Third Venice). Camporesi merges the images of real Venice with those made in Rimini, in miniature Venice, on a scale of 1:10 and gives us a third Venice, the visionary result of her imagination and fantasy.