Michela Taeggi

Categoria: Photography

  • Poetic  of  an ordinary day

    “The photograph is an image that always already detaches itself from the present, an image that is somehow eternally separated from the reality it represents.” (Jacques Derrida) As an artist, I have often wondered about the dynamics of the perceptual and conceptual process of observation. For me, photographing is an act of presence, not only…

  • Portrait

  • Liquid memories

    Liquid memories

    This project stems from the need to embark on a journey back in time where places dear to me become a space of memory. In this project, photographs and words taken from some love letters represent a hypothetical dialogue between two people who will never be able to meet again. The lake is a place…

  • Lunamare

    During a trip to the Aeolian Islands, I met on the island of Stromboli an elderly woman who welcomed me into her home with an architecture that resembled the prow of a ship. The woman spent many months in that house, alone, accompanied only by the sea peeking through the tiny windows. She told me…

  • I don’t sleep at night, I take care of the roses

    “I don’t sleep, I take care of the roses” Parents are the people we, paradoxically, know the least. Like any other unknown human being, with the aggravation of being the ones who gave us life. Men and women without a past, men and women born with us. It’s a fragmented imagination made up of a…

  • The Novel of Nature

    The Novel of Nature

    It is a return to the origins of free life, driven by the desire for beauty and respect for the natural environment. Nameless actors accompany us on this year-long journey where nature generously offers itself to be rediscovered in all its essentiality, triggering multiple sensations in the human soul. The intention is to retrace the…

  • (I)Sola

    (I)Sola

    (I)Sola is a photographic project born during a journey and takes shape through a series of diptychs composed of two polaroids that capture the sea and the sky in a continuous relationship where the elements lose their boundaries until they merge into one another. The sense of disorientation and amazement accompanies these photographs where water…