There is an invisible threshold between looking and perceiving, and I have chosen to cross it through photography. Often, our eyes glide over the surface of things without stopping to breathe them in, but Ansedonia encourages us to look differently: slowlyand deeply.

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There is an invisible threshold between looking and perceiving, and I have chosen to cross it through photography.

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Inspired by Abelardo Morell's sensitivity and energetic research, I stopped thinking of space as a void and started to feel it as a living body. Here, rocks are not just minerals, but photosensitive films that have absorbed the heat of the sun and the salt of thewind for centuries. Above all, I believe they have absorbed the energy of Queen Ansedonia, who was killed for taking a forbidden bath. I feel that her tension towards the light and her yearning for freedom have not vanished, but have become layered in the very matter itself.

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Morell taught me that by allowing the ‘outside’ to enter the ‘inside’, perspectives are reversed. That quest for freedom now vibrates in the air and floats in the water around me. In an age when reality often appears upside down and illogical, rediscovering these energies allows us to make sense of the absurd. I thus restore joy to those dreams still floating, understanding that beauty is not a mere aesthetic exercise, but a political and spiritual force capable of finally setting us free.

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About

Chiara Innocenti, born in Florence, has developed a sensitivity that transcends rationality, choosing visual language as a means of investigation. After studying science, she has devoted herself entirely to photography since 2019, refining her practice at the Marangoni Foundation and through professional mentoring. Her introspective research has led her to be a finalist in national competitions and to participate in international festivals and biennials. Awarded and published in trade magazines, she transforms reality into symbolic stories. Through her works, she invites the observer on an inner journey and into personal reflection, exploring and sharing a profound, subjective vision of reality.

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