What remains of childhood, its magic and its elusive fragility? As both a photographer and a teacher, Ilaria Sagaria observes the transition from childhood to adolescence from a privileged perspective. Like the chrysalis in insects, human beings go through stages of enigmatic transformations that have fascinated humanity since ancient times.

Through her photographic work, the artist explores this dizzying universe where adolescence appears as a metamorphosis, between tenderness and mystery. She captures these changes in images, blending poetry and the psychology of change. Her sensory approach immerses the audience in a reality where enchantment mingles with science through the pages of entomology and biology books. Her dreamlike figures seem frozen in an expanded time, softening their passage into adulthood. Their dreamy, inscrutable and intimate gazes, as well as their suspended gestures, convey the emotional anxieties inherent in growing up.

Ilaria Sagaria (1989, IT) is a photographer and visual artist based in Milan. Her work explores the social and psychological dimensions of emotions through an intimate and symbolic approach. She teaches photography and graphic design, and her work, anchored between past and present, generates unique visions and has been exhibited in major galleries and museums in Italy and abroad.

A collaboration with Fondation Convergences.