Trauma has power, but it is not a chosen power. It is an invisible imprint that conditions, transforms, sometimes breaks. Childhood trauma does not end with childhood. Those who grew up without feeling safe, those who were ignored, abused or abandoned, do not just learn to survive. They learn to distrust. The mind, in these cases, is no longer a refuge: it becomes a battlefield. Unprocessed memories can return in the form of flashbacks, disturbing dreams, uncontrollable emotions. Sometimes, even as voices that speak from within, often with the same threatening tone that we suffered as children
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.