Cecilia Gioria

I’ve always been dedicated to self-portraiture and in recent years I ‘ve used it as a way to tell my own story. For me photography is a stream of consciousness translated into images; at times it’s also a breath of fresh air. The ambiguity and concealment of my identity function both as a strategy and as a form of staging, allowing me to reveal what I believe others see in me. Through this process, I attempt to observe and analyze myself from the outside. I’ve also narrated the impact of psychiatric medication on my life—an experience that has been both salvation and condemnation. There was a long period during which I no longer wanted to take photographs. I felt extinguished, exhausted by an obsessive search for myself and in need of distance. Today I‘ve returned to photography with a renewed sense of play. I’m starting again from the point at which I once stopped, painfully.