Carla Iacono
Carla Iacono (Genoa, 4 April 1960) lives and works in Genoa, using different media including photography, collage and installation.
archaeologist and cartographer, focused on the themes of the body and metamorphosis, mainly analyzes the delicate period of adolescence and its "rites of passage", seen as an extraordinary moment of growth in which the effort to achieve one's identity takes place. The constant presence of autobiographical elements, such as the use of the daughter as a subject, they emphasize its representation and make it a concrete symbol of the delicate path that, between doubts and anxieties, leads every teenager to maturity.
Subsequently he addressed the delicate topic of the exploitation of cultural differences, enriching their research with reflections on the difficulties of dialogue that increasingly generate dramatic events. Among these the photographic series "Re-velation", who uses the veil, accessory present in all main cultures, while positioning itself as a secular and anthropological research, was perceived and welcomed by the network of Italian Ecclesiastical Museums as an opportunity to open up to the urgencies of the contemporary and to reflect on the themes suggested by the project. For more than two years Re-velation has been continuously on tour with exhibitions in important Italian museums and art venues.
Open to media contamination, 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.
Fascinated by the contamination between images and texts, He has published various books illustrated with photographs and collages. He collaborates with the Fiorina Publishing House for which he created the leporelli "Darwin's Brides" and "Little Red Riding Hood", as well as writing texts or creating illustrations for other titles in the Il Soffietto series.
His works are published in numerous exhibition catalogs in Italy and abroad and are present in important public and private collections, including the Musinf (Museum of Modern Art of Information and Photography) of Senigallia, the National Cinema Museum of Turin, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Villa Croce in Genoa.
Carla Iacono's art is a "conceptual" art that uses a mixture of dreams, irony, ambiguity and imagination to "reveal" fragments of memory or the unconscious that resurface in visible form from the depths of the invisible.
