SOFIA ROSALIA FIORAMONTI
Cluster Exhibitor | Photography & Print Fair 2022
Sofia Fioramonti is an Italian artist born in Rome in 1997. Sofia pursued an alternative path that led her to the art world. She has always closely observed and listened to the surrounding world, with a curious and sensitive approach. During her artistic career she has lived between Italy, France and Portugal, studying, experimenting and interchanging among different artistic techniques, from video to photography and painting, in parallel with her studies in Architecture.
After graduating in Architecture at the University of Rome, she began to gain her first work experience, through meeting the roman artist Mauro Conti, aka B.ZARRO, which led her to deepen her interest in art. She joined "La Bottega", where she is a pupil, a place of learning and artistic training in the footprint of the ancient Renaissance studios.
Her creative imagination could be summarised as a large puzzle, made up of an enormous number of elements from cinema, photography and painting. Much of her production takes its cue from the estrangement and deep sense of loneliness of contemporary man, typical of Edward Hopper's poetics, through a gaze strongly linked to the architectural compositional rules of symmetry and perspective. In April 2021 she presented her first short film "Il Nido" (The Nest) at the Holy Art Gallery in London and she was subsequently selected among the 100 emerging artists exhibited at the Rea Art Fair in Milan.
She is currently working on an exhibition to be held in Athens in 2022.
The imagery of Sofia Fioramonti is filled with an atmosphere of deafening silence, where the vulnerability and sense of loneliness of contemporary man takes over. The photographs sail between realism and abstraction. Scenes from the surrounding world, where time stands still, is frozen, restoring a universal meaning. Through the medium of photography, the artist discovers herself, using the photo action as a therapy that manages to delve into the depths of the unconscious. The style is developed in a very personal way with outlined shapes and an almost cinematographic construction of the scenes that is influenced by the architectural rules of perspective and symmetry, extensively studied by the artist during her university years.