Photo Journal Monday: Silvia Montevecchi

Embracing Chaos 3, 2020 © Silvia Montevecchi

All images and text by Silvia Montevecchi

For me photography is a window connecting the interiority to the outside. I think my images as a visual interpretation of an inner journey, an introspective investigation about identity, fears, hidden thoughts and feelings. My aim is to create imaginary worlds in which introspection is led by visual impulses, evoked sensations, symbolic elements. My work is usually structured in distinct photographic projects, often taking inspiration from literature. I am fascinated by how images and written words can influence each others, by the way a mental image can be the starting point for a written text as well as words can stimulate visual imagination. I try to develop my projects as a dance on a theme by creating suggestions through a balance of shapes and colors, full and empty spaces. I see my photographic work as an expression of my inner processes and of my introspective analysis. It develops as a series of reflections upon themes that are central in everybody’s existential though, such as death, fears and our way to relate to the chaotic nature of life, themes that I feel the need to deepen in a personal way. Photography is the mean that helps me to set free outward all these internal processes, by creating for them a poetic dimension sited on the boundary between reality and imagination. 

Embracing Chaos 1, 2020 © Silvia Montevecchi

Embracing Chaos 2, 2020 © Silvia Montevecchi

The state of being light 1, 2019 © Silvia Montevecchi

Jisei no k 3, 2017 © Silvia Montevecchi

The state of being light 4, 2019 © Silvia Montevecchi