To recount a year-long period of my private life, I borrowed a moodboard from the world of fashion and design to compose some diptychs.
In this virtual table I wanted to represent a personal diary with a series of photographs taken of different subjects, in different places and in different situations. Designing this moodboard was a fun and creative way to travel back in memory, in a sort of mental map, which allowed me to calmly organize a lot of material, in order to find an original interpretation that told of me.
The choice of images was a fundamental phase because I started to look at the photographs I had taken with a more critical eye. I must say that in the initial phase I let myself be guided by sensations, and subsequently by rationality. To achieve a meaningful result that would have been difficult to define a priori, I discarded all the photographs that ultimately were not functional to the project, conserving on the contrary the most identifying ones and in harmony with each other, placing them side by side in a thin white space to give balance and clarity of reading.
I based the entire visual “strategy” on the concept of Lightness, that is, the ability to not give weight to the inessential and manage to “glide over things”. The concept was based on Italo Calvino’s American Lessons, in which he stated that “for me lightness is associated with precision and determination, not with vagueness and abandonment to chance.
About Stefania Piccioni
Stefania Piccioni was born in Ascoli Piceno, Italia, on November 9, 1970. She is the daughter of a photographer father and graduated with a Diploma in Photography in 1989. Photography has always been Stefania’s work and passion. She developed this passion and, in 2009, she finally jumped into the art of digital photography. Her shots capture the world as she feels it or imagines it. Her images are captured both in black and white and color, creating timeless pictures of her imagination and desires. She had several group exhibitions in Italy: In 2014, she participated in the Third Biennale of Salento, Lecce. She won the third prize for Best Photography in b/w “Mille Modi Di Essere Donna” at Dream Factory Gallery, Milan 2014. She was selected in the 2015 and 2016 editions of the Art Collective “In Contemporary Porcari 2016” – Special Mention sec. Photography 2016 – Porcari (LU). In 2018, she exhibited in the city of photography, Senigallia; the Della Rovere fortress hosted a photographic exhibition dedicated to the annual acquisitions of the Archive, which, since 2015, is located at the Musinf (Municipal Museum of Modern Art, Information, and Photography of Senigallia). The exhibition, organized by Prof. Giorgio Bonomi, offers a vast overview of the photographic self-portraits of Italian and foreign artists. Her still life and self-portraits are part of the photographic archive at Musinf- Senigallia (An). Her self-portrait is published in the art book on self-portrait by Giorgio Bonomi, edited by Rubettino. Her photographs are part of collections public and private and are published in different Photo Magazines.
