Habeam Corpus · 2024 · digital video 1920×1080 2’32”
The title refers to the principle of Habeas Corpus, which establishes the protection of personal freedom, and transposes it into the first person: “that I have (my) body” as an imperative affirmation of the Natural Law of the Right to Life.

The artwork plays with three visual elements (flowers, body, bombs): shootings have a slight slow motion and frame details; explosions, taken from the web, are enlarged, slowed down and reversed.

Architettura di sopravvivenz · 2024 · series of photos, digital print · 60×40cm
In the Architecture of Survival project, Marcela Castañeda Florian takes us on a deep journey exploring the indissoluble bond between inhabiting spaces and human survival.

Through a series of fifteen photographs, captured in the Colombian outskirts, such as El Pozón in Cartagena and the Comunas of Medellín, the artist offers a visual map that reflects the reality of many global urban contexts.

Senza titolo 9 (DIARIES) · 2023 · oil on canvas · 110×85cm

In this series of paintings a childish spirit is recovered, characterized by lexical errors, nonsense and contradictions: when a child makes lexical errors (I FEEL BOOK), or pairs words that are incompatible (CAR CATERPILLAR DOLPHIN DRUG), or, again (WE DID OUR HOMEWORK AND WE SHOUTED), together with the marks that sometimes appear on the back of the sheet of paper, they create meanings that fall outside the realm in which adults are accustomed to thinking and acting.

Cicli · 2024 · Jesmonite AC100, Jesmonite AC730, Armenian natural pigments, fiberglass and Leocobrium moss · variable dimensions

By producing casts, which in some way reflects the human desire or state of mind to sample and reproduce the environment around us, Cycles focuses on nature and the urgency to protect, reproduce, and nurture micro-ecosystems.

Moss then becomes a vehicle through which time, if left to its own devices, expands, gradually conquering the entire surface it occupies.

Dove ci incontriamo · 2024 · digital print · 16x28cm

The series of three photographs Where We Meet explores the delicate balance between nature and human-made artifice, highlighting how these two seemingly opposing worlds not only clash but often find common ground for coexistence and dialogue. This suspended image emphasizes their intrinsic connection, showing that even in situations of apparent contrast, there exists a profound interaction and integration.

Senza Titolo (Tanto Ridi, Quanto Piangi) · 2024 · digital photo on paper · 21×29×3cm

What we love requires care. There’s a certain purity in the pursuit of caring for things, a conscious awakening considered naive in a frantic world focused on production, money, and consumption.

The three images are printed on different types of paper. The audience is invited to engage with the work not only through sight but also through touch.

Oltre il visibile · 2023 · fine art photo print · 70×100cm

The work deals with the notions of presence and absence. What emerges is the essence of the figure, without superfluous details and which is not possible to enclose in a body but is possible to trace in the shadow of the continuous evolution of the movement: freezing that shadow. That nuance in a single shot is equivalent to having an alive image.

Super offerta! · 2024 · concrete, tempera, printed cardboard · 72×25×100cm

In a Florence where everything—from public spaces to our lifestyle and traditions—has become monetizable, what remains is to sell is even the pigeons, deemed a waste and a burden for the city’s showcase. The artwork’s title is drawn from this large-scale sell-off.

È solo frutto della mia fantasia? · 2024 · digital inkjet print on uncoated paper 120g/m2 · 70×100cm

Is it merely a figment of my imagination? This work aims to be an immersive journey that stimulates reflection on the very nature of perception. Images of real places are transformed into surreal visions, where tangible elements intertwine with the fantastic, creating hybrid scenarios. Each viewer is free to interpret the link between text and image and to explore new dimensions of perception and reconsider our relationship with reality.