TITLE: ILLUSION

I'm sorrounded by a pervasive gleaming light.
Perhaps I'm Lost in the oneiric dimension of a dream or in the metaphysical space of my subconscious.
I see myself suspended in limbo of a pointless wait.
My goal was so close yet so unreachable as I watched it disappear each time.
So I disguised my desire covering it with ephemeral dreams, I buried disillusionment and pain in my subconscious letting it devour my feelings withdrawing my urgent needs from in the blinding deceit of a timeless space opposed by reality and the relentless flow of time.

AUTHOR: Rachele Gabrielli (Italy)

Born in Rome in 1987, fascinated by the world of art since childhood, I graduated in cultural heritage and studied music for 10 years.
You are graduating in psychological sciences and techniques, at an older age I decide to approach photography, attending various courses and masters at the OF association in Rome. Soon I grasp its artistic but also curative value as an introspective and research means through which to express myself and investigate the invisible aspects internal and external to me. My photography is based on a symbolic and metaphorical language, most of the time expressed through the self-portrait. The choice of self-portrait derives from
an initial need for personal research, as a tool for
self-analysis deriving from being both a represented subject and a spectator of oneself.

Collective exhibitions
2019 - collective exhibition “A bridge for photography”, Rome
2020 - collective exhibition "Female Cut" at
2020 - collective exhibition at Spazio Tadini in Milan
2020 - Gipsytudine at La Mole Ancona, collective project by Francesca Tilio
2020 - Paratissima Art Station Fair in Turin
2020 - collective exhibition at Palazzo Velli in Rome Acknowledgments
2020 - finalist in the contest "Self-portrait at the time of the coronavirus"
2020 - finalist in the #STAYATHOME Art full Frame contest in London
2020 - winner of honorable mention for the "CONCEPTUAL" category from the MINIMALIST PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS contest