Francesca Belgiojoso, (Milano, 1980) psychotherapist and artist, she uses collage to tell stories of inner worlds, thoughts and fantasies. Visually intrigued by the past, she looks for forgotten images and takes them back to the present. Framed on a white background, her collages are paper sculptures that appear to fly alone, the shadows they cast isolating them from the rest of the world.
Francesca Belgiojoso, (Milano, 1980) psychotherapist and artist, she uses collage to tell stories of inner worlds, thoughts and fantasies. Visually intrigued by the past, she looks for forgotten images and takes them back to the present. Framed on a white background, her collages are paper sculptures that appear to fly alone, the shadows they cast isolating them from the rest of the world.
Francesca’s first series Interiors (2014-2015) was about solitude, women are depicted in their own houses used as a metaphor for their inner world. Vintage photographs and fragments from contemporary magazines where put together: perspective, surrealism and narrative gave her women the chance to be viewed.
Her second body of work And We’ll Get Lost Together (2015) depicts that temporary moment when we are in between things, when we feel lost just before making a decision. Poetic stories of thoughts and transitions.
Her third series Let Your Body Steal the Show (2015) is made with vintage pornographic magazines, old cookbooks and vintage Versailles photographic prints. After a master on clinical sexology, she brings the attention of the viewer on the subject of sex, dealing with the representation of that delicate psychological sensation of the intimate encounter.
Taking a pause from psychological themes, she’s been working on visual poetry. Passionate of Japanese culture, she translated her favorite haiku in tiny delicate paper sculptures: Visual Haiku (2016)
(20) Young Adult (2016) it’s the most intimate among her works: after years of using others people images, she started working with the photographs she took when she was twenty and wanted to be a photographer. Ten big collage depicting through colors and shapes the inner world of a young adult.
She is now working on a series of big collages made with her collection of old art posters: In the eye of the beholder (2016-2017), working metaphorically on growing up as an artist through the fruition of art.
Solo Exhibitions
There Must be a Second Chance, Zaion Gallery, October 2016, Biella
(20) Young Adult, Festival Fotoleggendo, Officine Fotografiche, June 2016, Roma
Paper and Diamonds, DemnerMiletto Showroom, March 2016, New York
Trangeneration, bipersonal at The Harts Gallery, November – December 2015. New Milford, Connecticut
Let Your Body Steal The Show at EstArtGallery c/o The Others Art Fair, November 2015, Torino
And We’ll Get Lost Together, EstArtGallery, July 2015, Pietrasanta
Interiors hosted by Gattarossa Art, June 2015, Piombino
Interiors hosted by Silvia Giusti Antiquary, 5vie Art+design district during the design week, April 2015, Milano
Interiors, curated by Teresa Francesca Giffone at Mirror Art Gallery, February-March 2015, Vicenza
Free Associations, installation at Chiesa della Maddalena, September 2014, Pesaro
Ottavia Hiddenart at Perugia Social Photo Fest, November 2013, Perugia
Selected Group Exhibitions
Smaill is Beautiful, Zoia Art Gallery, December 2016, Milano
Frammenti, Evvivanoè Art Gallery, November 2016, Torino
Metonimia, curated by Federica Barletta, Townhouse 70, October 2016, Torino
Collage a trois, curated by Elisa Fusi, Teatro San Teodoro, April 2016, Cantù
Shapes, Circoloquadro Art Gallery, November – December 2015, Milano
New Generation Festival, Palazzo Pisani, October 2015, Lonigo (VI)
Dolly – Multiplo Contemporaneo, Circoloquadro Art Gallery, November – December 2014, Milano
14/14 | Modernity’s First Century curated by Georgios Vogiatzakis, PLASMA – Plastic Modern Art, December 2014, Milano
Statements 2013.2 curated by Ivan Quaroni, Circoloquadro Art Gallery, July 2013, Milano
50 Artisti per un Museo, Museum MITT, July 2013, Torino
PostQards curated by Marta Cereda, Circoloquadro Art Gallery, November – December 2013, Milano