LAURA MALATERRA
Caravaggesque lights fighting pollution

The "fil rouge" linking and summarizing my project, continuing over time, are the lights and the red colour that characterizes Caravaggio's painting, bringing it back to everyday reality, to the dramatic problem of pollution, to the climate crisis of the planet that I feel so deeply. Thus the face of a man, reminiscent of certain 17th century depositions, now revisited in my daily life becomes a face suffocated by plastic. "Fragments of photographs" recompose a painting with Caravaggesque lights in a modern key, the flow of the drama of our times where a duck is caged in a deadly net but the plastic Cinderella bottle is transformed into a precious Bohemian crystal. A passionate story and a synthetic metaphor about plastic in our civilization, an appeal to humanity to defend the world from pollution.

Author
Fine Art Photographer, after graduating in architecture in Turin (Italy), where I was born but now I live in Genoa, I embarked on a theatrical career as an actress and director - and also as an author I wrote many theatrical texts, I published four books - and this has influenced my approach to photography. I started photographing theater rehearsals so that I love to create atmospheres with theatrical lights where the actors are often the everyday objects that take on new appearances. I set up ‘Minimi Set’ in the spaces of the house, creating poetic and surreal atmospheres, I like to think they are another reality that is truer than the real one. I manage the blog 'L'ovo di Piero' of photographic surreal stories and I write on Artwort, an independent art blog, especially about photography. My photographs have been exhibited in prestigious galleries in Italy and abroad, selected for important photographic competitions and published in national and international magazines. Publications: Vogue, Photographize Magazine, Exibart, EYE-Photo Magazine, The Heroine's Journey, Iconic, Booooooom Magazine, Marika Magazine, C41 Magazine, Tagree Magazine, TravelGlobe, Lens Culture, Life Framer.

Website
https://www.instagram.com/lauramalaterra/

BACK TO GALLERY