Francesca Sand
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I was born in 1980 in Pisa, Tuscany. I am photographer, visual artist and curator.
From an early age I have nourished myself with art and photography.
At 12 it was given my first camera, an automatic canon, and from there I began to change my vision of the world, with the need to go more and more behind appearances. The camera becomes a mirror of humanity.
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In 2008 I graduated in photography and video at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, with a thesis on Antoine D’Agata. In 2010 I left for Paris where I still live, where I attended film, photography and body's anthropology courses at the University of Paris 8. Paris marks a new era for my artistic work, the body becomes the main object of my photography.
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The body is the mirror of existence, of the human condition.
The body takes on a social and political aspect.This leads me to get to know the fragility of the human being more closely and to the desire to confront with other artists, so in 2018 I create Action Hybride, a collective of artists based in Paris. We organise exhibitions, conferences, workshops and cultural actions to date.
I am also working on my first human landscapes photo book.
My need to reappear in the Mediterranean, the land that raised me and the sea of my childhood synonymous of happiness, which unfortunately today has become a place of pain and death, pushes me to want to be even more interested in the human condition and to create with Loredana Denicola a new social political artistic, project, where multiple themes that interest the Mediterranean, Europe will be addressed thus opening an artistic and cultural dialogue with other artists and professionals.
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Project for TERRAROSSALAB
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The Naked City
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The naked city is a photographic project about the loneliness and marginalisation of the city.
It is a journey through the cities of the world in full state of urban change, where the new buildings put humanity in a desert emotion. Where poverty is hidden by wealth and hypocrisy. Humanity is locked in total isolation, where there is no room for emotion.
The neighborhood sell controlled by money and the population no longer has freedom , and is condemned to social distance. Man is in his coldest solitude. Great palaces that hide the truth. Modern urbanism is the mirror of a totalitarian and capitalist society. pieces of cement, pieces of humanity that collapse.
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Please reach out with questions, comments, or to share ideas via email to terrarossaresidency@gmail.com
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