Daniela Carati

Daniela Carati presents her new series of shots created in a very unusual venue, the Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno in Genoa (Italy), a striking site that features hundreds of sculptures and monuments through a myriad of paths that lead up this hillside outside town.
Daniela Carati that teaches art at a high school in Genoa worked with a few of her students that posed for her shots. Living so close to teenagers the artist is continually intrigued by their psychology and fascinated by their environment. The development of the cognitive, emotional and attitudinal features of these adolescents is under Daniela’s eyes every day.
In this work the artist focused on the teenager’s vision of life, on their perspectives and their motivations and not so much on the controversies and conflicts related to this stage of life between childhood and adulthood.
All the photographs invite the observer to look closer into their world. They recall or suggest different behaviors and states of mind. Daniela Carati gave her students the freedom to act as they wanted, we have the freedom to interpretate what we see as we like. The artist’s students walked along the narrow alleys, sat under the shades of the poplars talking, laughing, kissing, sending text messages.
The photographer focuses on people’s reaction, she finds an interesting setting – strongly linked to history and society – she gives a soft, poetical input and likes to see what happens after, both with her models and spectators.
In most of all the photographs the artist removes with Photoshop parts of the background and fills the empty spaces with the white colour changing completely the normal sense of perspective of the image and our point of view. Beyond that white light there could be the past where all the personalities buried in the cemetery lived as well as the future where Daniela Carati’s students tend to. And then there is our vision, our dreams, our freedom to interpretate art – and life – just as we like.

Valeria De Simoni