Lives and works in Lecce, Italy.
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I think surrealism plays an important role in my work not because I feel me especially connected with this historical art scene but because I grow up in a place where fiction and reality are constantly mix it up.
I always mix up really different photographic languages (as stage photography, landscape, reportage and still life) because I believe there is not a real point of view in the storytelling of reality and I want to make it clean in my practice through the fragmentation of the vision: I believe the spectator needs to have an active role to complete my work.
Fata Morgana project, shoot in Salento (Apulia, Italy) in 2015
I set up a picture with many watermelons to speak in a metaphoric way about migration.
Fata Morgana project, shoot in Salento (Apulia, Italy) in 2017
Old map of Italy and Mediterranean area
Fata Morgana project, shoot in Salento (Apulia Italy) in 2017
Old boat abandoned in a pine forest
Fata Morgana project, shoot in Salento (Apulia Italy) in 2015
Green house in the countryside. Many migrants in this region are exploited in the agriculture business
Fata Morgana project, shoot in Salento (Apulia Italy) in 2017
Portrait of a young woman during a celebration of the Senegal community in November
Fata Morgana project, shoot in Salento (Apulia Italy) in 2017
Draws on the wall of a Castle in Acaya (Apulia) made by the prisoner of Mediterranean area in 1500 d.c.
Fata Morgana project, shoot in Salento (Apulia Italy) in 2017
Set up picture I realized to create a visual disturb in the spectator.
Fata Morgana project, shoot in Salento (Apulia Italy) in 2017
Set up picture I realized with Gloria, a girl from Ghana leaving in my city
Fata Morgana project, shoot in Salento (Apulia Italy) in 2016
Set up picture with golden tomatoes in a field
Fata Morgana project, shoot in Salento (Apulia Italy) in 2016
Portrait of a young man with a isothermal blanket
About the Artist
Alessia Rollo is a visual artist born in South Italy in 1982. She received her BA at University in Perugia and she is crossing her MA in Publishing at University Statale in Milan.
She also obtained a Master in “Creative Photography” in 2009 at EFTI school in Madrid. She participated in many international solo and group exhibitions and she was invited in residency in Japan for European Eyes on Japan, at the MO.ta in Ljubljana, at the Italian Cultural Institute in Addis Ababa. Her project Fata Morgana was awarded in Spain and published by Ediciones Anomalas in 2019.
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