The Monstrosity of Beauty after Surrealism.
Beauty is beyond harmony and chaos, underneath horror and grace. Without our hearts, beauty would still be real as it attains towards transcendence of the human. Surrealism is pure unconscious violence. A naive viciousness we are still not sophisticated enough to understand. The difficult but necessary disengagement from reason and emotions, to recognize what lies beneath, is the key to creation

Born on 29/07/1982 in Italy, her love for art was revealed early, at the age of 8, when she started using paint, glue and fabrics to reinvent her toys. With the ambition to start her own business as photographer/digital artist, at the age of 18, she decided to study international business and finance in London. Yet the urge to bring her inner visual worlds to light was also strong, and thus she started experimenting with photography and photo manipulation cultivating her interest and skills with the ultimate purpose of becoming a professional photographer and digital artist. After getting her degree in business management, in 2004, she moved to New York where she started working as photography assistant while studying for a master degree in Business Management at NYU.
In 2006, she moved back to her dear London, where she enrolled at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design to study Creative Digital Photography. To support herself, during her studies and at the beginning of her career as freelancer, she started a career in events, working as Promotion Entry Manager for Cannes Lions, the most prestigious international advertising event in the world.
She continued to grow as a photographer and retoucher finding the time to expand her portfolio, organizing photo shoots and collaborating with many photographers and makeup artists.

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