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Bronze 2026 Fine Art / Other

What remains of childhood trauma

  • Photographer
    Antonella Cunsolo
  • Prize
    Bronze in Fine Art / Other

The series conceptually describes the psychological consequences of childhood trauma: neglect, abandonment, and abuse. Trauma fractures identity, disrupts affective regulation, and alters bodily perception, giving rise to dissociation, emptiness, and false selves. It begins with the "Inner Mother," a gesture of symbolic reparation in which, cradling a doll, the subject offers herself the care once denied. It then develops through intrusive memories of what has been, the alienation from reality, and culminates in "Hamlet's Doubt”; the existential question: to endure suffering or surrender to it

Born in Sicily in 1974. She graduated in Psychology in Rome and specialized in psychotherapy. She began with landscapes, to arrive at Portraiture, a field in which she followed several workshops with Italian and international Masters. The projects she carries out move on the border between art and psychology. She is the author of two books: “Io non muoio” and “Noi siamo bellezza”. With a conceptual language, she is working on a series of photographic projects aimed at giving shape and face to complex issues such as mental distress, anxiety, depression, dissociation, eating disorders, trauma.

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