Portraits of the blossoming.

2017-2019

 There is a certain discomfort in the awareness of growing up as a privileged girl in the Italian countryside.
A sort of helplessness. A bittersweet certainty that you could be doing more for the world out there.
A world where you could be whoever you admire.

Through this series I briefly tip-toe into the life of girls approaching the threshold of adulthood,
probing how expectations affect their perception of the future and their entrance in society.

You close your eyes to become the Amèlie imagined by Jean-Pierre Jeunet,
you squeeze your eyelids to evolve in the India drawn by Park Chan-Wook,
you furrow your eyebrows to turn into the Claire envisioned by Beau Willimon.

Those are brief moments in an everyday life made of contentment and ataraxis.
Moments you somewhat dread and crave at the same time. Still, time flies fast.
For the most ambitious, this call coming from the unknown is as sweet as honey, irresistible.
So they leave their nest, unknowingly leaving their naivety as well.

Identifying myself as one of these girls brought me to study the phenomenon in the countryside of northern Italy,
an area of unperceived economic wellbeing.
Teenagers leaving their homes are often unaware of their privileged and shielded status,
facing a dissonance between their first impact with the "world out there" and what they expected they would find.