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"Limerence Reverie" Variations On Grief
"Limerence Reverie" traces grief as obsession, bodily ache, and warped time. Within the home as both refuge and stage, self-portraits and symbolic objects transform hypervigilance and heartbreak into images of vulnerability, endurance, and self-rescue.
A Whole Universe
A Whole Universe explores femininity, ageing, imperfection and motherhood through abstract studio images, in which the body itself is used as the primary material and carrier of meaning. Produced using a platinum/palladium (Pt/Pd) printing process.
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E' Un Varco
Chiara Pavolucci reimagines the margins as spaces of transition, resistance, and transformation. Through photography and collective exploration, she unveils places where stories, time, and nature intertwine, inviting new ways of seeing.
El Goce Otro
El goce otro is a photographic essay on the body in evangelical churches in Spain and Latin America. I am interested in ecstatic experiences, power relations, and how affects shape a way of being. This world is as strange as it is close.
Where We Surface
I return again and again to what a body carries from what it has endured, what it has inherited, and how those traces shape what it is still becoming.
At Arm's Length
The photographs are documentary and post-documentary, portraying singular moments that shape girls' biology and belonging during the metamorphosis of teen hood.
After The Plan (Stadt Am Werk)
'After the Plan' focuses on the three planned cities of Eisenhüttenstadt, Hoyerswerda & Halle-Neustadt. Caught between built utopia, the demolition of existing structures, former ideals, challenges of structural change, depopulation, and reorientation.
The Prince Is Asleep Too
What happens when we outgrow fairy tales but continue to desire their promises? The Prince Is Asleep Too explores how inherited fantasies shape our desires, our sense of possibility, and the lives we imagine for ourselves.
Steine Glitzern Im Dunkeln
My project is about self-reflection. It’s about exploring my life circumstances. What defines me as a mother, a woman, and an artist? I’m having an inner dialog, want to see my situation more clearly. I pick out importantent insights.
Based On A True Story
Based on my own firsthand experience with sexual assault and the subsequent judicial process, I returned to the very courtroom where my trial took place and re-enacted the scene, positioning myself as everyone present during the hearings.
Cuevas De Sacromonte
Set in 1970s Colombia, a father exiled after torture and false accusations, a daughter left in absence. This project revisits their broken bond through experimental image-making, where archive, pixel, and the crack become tools of memory.
Whispers Of The Primeval Forest
What does Białowieża Primeval Forest whisper? Amid recent human pressures and the migration crisis, I explore its fragile ecosystem, spiritual ecology, ancient forest relicts, healing fungi, women’s healing traditions, local Slavic tales and my own roots.
Didn't Mean To Keep You Waiting
A Greek educator’s 1901 suicide note becomes the starting point for a photographic exploration of illness, isolation and mortality. Through archival fragments and staged scenes, the work reflects on what remains unanswered across time.
How To Tame A Wild Tongue
I investigate into the suppression and generational loss of Tamazight, Indigenous language of the Amazigh of Morocco. Personal and collective memory, archives and traces of communication, I examine what remains when a mother tongue is no longer passed on.
Thirteen
THIRTEEN explores excess, desire and the contradictions of consumer culture through the world of adolescent girls. Meticulously staged photographic tableaux transform familiar objects of consumption into seductive and unsettling visions.