Love trilogy

Since 2020 I have been researching romantic love as a cultural experience, induced and socialized especially for the female gender.

I first came up with the chapter My heart is full, a reaction to a married friend's questioning about my state of mind living alone during the Covid-19 pandemic. With the idea of loneliness implicit in his enquiry, I began to photograph my daily life as if I was being observed by an imaginary partner, and to look for symbols of the cycles of the love experience in my domestic space.

Quotes with advice in the love field that are commonly found in women's magazines and short stories about romantic experiences were added to this body of work to create the photobook The journey of the woman in love (work in progress).

The title refers to the narratives where we are conditioned to live the ups and downs, the sweet and the bitter, the joys and sorrows of love, in a repetition of actions and attitudes.

More recently, I've started exploring archive photos taken by ex-boyfriends. In With a little luck, you'll never fall in love again, I've selected images in which I stare directly at the photographer/lover and have made a tight crop around my face. The images represent the period when romantic love played a central role in my life and the gaze of the loved one somehow defined my identity.