The image in Carla Iacono’s poster, “Poisoned still life“, belongs to the photographic series Antiwonderland, in which the author digs into her subconscious and memory, rediscovering themes dear to her imagination and sketching a universe of surreal stories. In “Poisoned Still Life” the blurry silhouettes of the toy soldiers that can be glimpsed among the withered flowers and branches contribute to creating a “toxic” still life with which Iacono firmly reiterates her dissent against any form of violence.
Carla Iacono lives and works in Genoa, using different media including photography, collage
and installation.
Her work, focused on the themes of body and metamorphosis, mainly analyzes the delicate period of adolescence and its “rites of passage”, seen as an extraordinary moment of growth including the effort to reach its own identity. The constant presence of autobiographical elements, such as the use of her daughter as the subject of many images, emphasizes the representation and makes it a concrete symbol of the delicate path that, between doubts and anxieties, leads every adolescent to maturity.
Then she addressed the delicate subject of the exploitation of cultural differences, enriching her
research with reflections on the difficulties of dialogue which more and more generate dramatic events. Among these, the photographic series Re-velation, using the veil, an accessory present in all the main cultures, although conceived as a secular and anthropological research, was
perceived and welcomed by the network of Italian Ecclesiastical Museums as an opportunity to open up to urgencies of our time and to reflect on the themes suggested by the project.
For more than two years Re-velation has continuously toured with exhibitions in important Italian museums and art venues.
Open to contamination between media, in her most recent photographic works Carla Iacono inserts collage elements of great symbolic value and combines them with installations that recall dreamlike and surreal worlds.
Her works are published in numerous exhibition catalogs in Italy and abroad and are present in public and private collections, including the Musinf (Museum of Modern Art of Information and Photography) of Senigallia, the National Museum of Cinema of Turin, the Museum of
Contemporary Art of Villa Croce in Genoa.
It’s a conceptual art, using a mix of dream, irony, ambiguity and fantasy aiming to “reveal’ fragments of memory or unconscious resurfaced in a visible form from the depth of invisible.
