My series La Loba unfolds as the metaphorical journey of a heroine in search of her own awareness. It is inspired by the words of Clarissa Pinkola Estés: "The wild nature has a vast integrity to it. It means to draw on the innate feminine powers of intuition and sensing to come into one's cycles, to find what one belongs to."

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My series is a wandering through the psyche in search of the primordial and universal female archetype. Through the analysis of myths and traditional fairy tales, the project seeks to free the feminine vision from social superstructures and allow its life force to manifest once again.

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My series is a wandering through the psyche in search of the primordial and universal female archetype.

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My personal history and my body have been the instruments of my artistic research, which, although it began as a personal investigation, later extended towards the universal feminine, following a process of reconnection with intuition and nature, from the microcosm to the macrocosm.

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I have adopted a performative method: by combining bodily memories, oneiric material, and the content of fairy tales, I use self-portraiture and intimate performances to awaken ancestral images.

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The synthesis of this process, combining archetype, body and nature, generates a poietic activity through photographic narrative. La Loba is an image-map that evokes pathways of reunion — through reflection, epiphany and awareness — with one's instincts and one's own unique essence, stripped of structures, conventions and conditioning.

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About

Ornella Orlandini, born in Turin in 1980, holds a BA in Education from the University of Turin and an MA in Photography from IED. In 2021, she was selected for the annual mentoring programme with Simona Ghizzoni, and in 2023/24, she attended Yogurt's curatorial LAB. In 2015, she exhibited at the Museum Europäischer Kulturen in Berlin in RÜBER FRAUEN. Segni di una recente emigrazione italiana femminile a Berlino, with an installation comprising photography, interviews, and objects, created for Rete Donne E.V. Her works have been shown in national and international group exhibitions. Since 2012, she has lived in Berlin.

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www.ornellaorlandini.com