I started my project Beyond reality in 2017, and it is still in progress. I wanted to create an atmosphere in which reality and dreams are blended with mystery. I followed moments of personal inspiration, brought from experienced emotions or dreams about metamorphoses, hopes, worries and desires. The photographic medium has allowed me to express parts of my inner world into my images. For me, photography is a method to release fears and to find urges to grow. I challenge my own imagination and create curiosity in myself as the observer. Through my self-portraits and making portraits of people, I investigate the unconsciousness. This method allows me to take an inner journey to face the present, with more awareness, focusing on what I am experiencing. These series were inspired by my inner journey, my dream state, metaphysical art, music, and symbolism.

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About

Isabella Quaranta was born in Turin (Italy) in 1985 and still lives in this city. She concentrates her work on self-portrait and portrait, describing situations between reality and oniric. In 2012 she graduated in Sciences of Cultural and Historical Artistic Heritage in Turin, and she obtained a Master in Advanced Photography at the European Institute of Design in Milan (2014). Parallel to this photographic research, she is also dedicated to music portraits, events and theatre photography. She is among the eight artists selected to represent Italy at JCE Biennale 2019-2021. She won the critics' award in the photography section of Basilio Cascella Prize 2020.