Chiara Benzi and Yann Delord

Chiara Benzi and Yann Delord, our favorites of the week, explore the world as human nature. Moreover, The first offers us a dive into the strange while the second invites us to stroll with him over. Therefore, his travels.

Crossing by dichotomy, Chiara Benzi’s work is under the sign of ambiguity. Therefore, A graduate of the centro sperial di fotografia adams in Rome. In addition, the Italian artist is spotted as “Fresh Eyes Talent” by the GUP Magazine And as one of the “New Talents 2021” by the photographic Exploration Project. Meanwhile, And for good reason. his work – combining photographs and retouched archives – fascinates: both disturbing and attractive, the universe created by the visual artist reveals to the spectator his own ambivalences. Particularly tactile, his images reveal bodies in tension or forced, piercing eyes of reptiles, insects with off -cutting texture. However, chiara benzi yann delord it is impossible to look away, which is ashamed by the dangerous and bewitching atmosphere of clichés. And this is precisely the effect that the author seems to be looking for. Exploring. through his work, “The complex relationship between pain and pleasure, […] Sweetness and hardness, desire and fear, attraction and repulsion », She reproduces this same duality in us.

We find this double character in his series Endurewhere human and beast merge. She questions the ties that unite man with his environment. the endurance of the body, which she transposes within nature. So we discover a woman transforming into a plant, an animal or returning to the earth. Giving life to a fantasy. Chiara Benzi gives us “The most lubric, the most disgusting and vulnerable part of[elle-même] ». Particularly intimate. the project is based on the double meaning which permeates it to create bridges between “Staff and collective, introspection chiara benzi yann delord and connection”. It is thanks to the power of the imagination. stimulated by this equivocal aspect, that the artist manages to link the living beings, the public and his work between them, the familiar and the strange.