Surreal & Family Portrait

What is your relationship with yourself and with mirrors? What do you see reflected? How do you recognize your image? Living with a chronic illness (Endometriosis and Adenomiosis) sometimes feels like living a surreal life. That's what I see in the mirror: pieces of someone that I sometimes don't recognize, and at times, I couldn't even recognize myself among my family, who didn’t understand my suffering. I have intimately experienced my existence from the outside, imagining myself as part of a community more similar to me.

mixed media collage of vintage photographs and paper

Agamede

Circe

Artemisia

Agatha

Glinda

Medea

Amanda

Anne

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Photo and collage art concept by Alice Brunello Luise

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Photo assistant: Mattia Ferrari, Model: Weiwei Lin, MUA: Perla Rangheri, Retouch: Alessandro Fabbro. A special thank to Digital Touch, Verona ITA

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