Alice Brunello Luise
My work is rooted from the suffering of a body that no longer matches the image the world sees.
It is a body shaped by a real yet invisible pain, forced to hold inside what leaves no trace on the outside: a body living with endometriosis.
Through photography, I expose my body, while simultaneously revealing the impossibility of fully showing its inner reality. The image captures only the surface, but cannot bear witness to what happens within. For this reason, I fragment, layer, erase, and reassemble it using collage and mixed media.
The body loses its unity, becoming a landscape of wounds, memories, and transformations. My work is a form of self-storytelling and reclamation: I bring my wounds openly into the space of the artwork, so that what was kept quiet can finally find a place. I am not trying to explain pain or translate it entirely into an image. Instead, I am looking for a form that can hold its absence, its presence, and its weight.
The question at the heart of my practice is: who do I become when illness alters my body, my intimacy, and the way I recognize myself? In the gap between what appears and what is lived, personal experience becomes an opportunity for shared connection. The body is no longer just the site of the wound: it becomes a witness, a language, and a path toward healing.