Between mythology, art and photography, I tried to look into a complex and stratified imaginary, full of cultural symbols, references and artistic details and echoes of the psyche, exploring the multifaceted universe - internal and external - of the feminine. Condemned to grace, an emblem of the irreconcilability between the idealized and the earthly vision, the female body shows in these images its duality between ecstasy and torment. Through light and colour that seems to merge painting and photography, I tried to actualize the female beauty, projecting it into a present made of dark and light that still preserves in itself the legacy of classicism and obscure archetypes, in which fragments of a body in definition are recomposed in a collective portrait, not only individual.

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About
Ilaria Sagaria is a photographer and visual artist born in Campania, in South Italy. She works as a photographer and graphic design teacher in Milan. Her works have received many recognitions and publications, and it has been exhibited in important art galleries and museums, like the Uffizi Galleries. The aim of her photography is to restore a complex, many-layered image of the interior world of the feelings, rich in cultural symbols and artistic echoes, with a special focus on social and psychological meanings.