Tatiana Cardellicchio - #5 The Orchid Command

In #5- The Orchid Command, beauty assumes an imperial form.
The orchid is not an ornament, but an emblem: a presence that crowns and at the same time silences.
The face disappears beneath a floral triumph that celebrates not the person, but the power of imagery.
What seems to be aesthetic excess is actually rigor: a discipline disguised as splendor.
The flower does not adorn — governs.
Petal Dictatorship — The Aesthetic Regime questions beauty as a structure of power, where seduction becomes an authoritarian language.
In the series, grace is never neutral: it is a force that guides, defines, and limits.

The artwork is a fine art Glicee print made on 270 g satinized premium paper, limited to an edition of 20 copies of this size, printed using Epson UltraChrome HD, which guarantees intense color reproduction and exceptional durability over time, setting the industry standard.
Image size: 30 × 40 cm, including a white border.
Limited edition: 20 copies, each signed and numbered on the back.
Authenticity: each copy is accompanied by a stamped and handwritten signed certificate of authenticity, guaranteeing the provenance and uniqueness of the artwork. The shipment also includes a page dedicated to the description of the shot and the biography of the author.
Careful shipping: delivered in a protective tube without a frame for optimal protection during transport.

Tatiana Cardellicchio was born in Lecce, where the light of the South becomes visual matter. She graduated in Photography from the Photography Institute and has always moved between visual arts and identity research. In 2025, she received an honorable mention at the Best Photography Award. In 2024, she was awarded the silver medal at the Prix de la Photographie (PX3), a recognition that celebrates the silent strength of her gaze.

His/her/their works are
States displayed in various exhibitions and volumes.

2025

Honorable mention in Art Photography Best Photo Awards 2024-2025

Imagenation London (May 2025)

Endless Spring (photography exhibition curated by Paratissima) Turin

I am - I am, Women in Photography, National Etruscan Museum Villa Giulia (Rome)

Impatto (personal exhibition) at LAB ex macello (Taranto)

Women in Photography I AM/IO SONO (National Etruscan Museum Villa Giulia)

Sapore di Mare 9 (Lido Turrisi, Salento)

Corners of heaven N.O.D.I. (Salento)

2024

Naked part of u, Medina Gallery, Rome 2024

Silver Prize at the Prix de la Photographie Paris
In the category Portrait/ Self-portrait

New Bodies: Silent dialogues between body and nature (Rome) September 2024

BESTSELECTED Vol. 7 in the SERIES WINNERS category, 2024

Imagination New York (One Art Space gallery) Tribeca, Manhattan, New York, March 2024

Selvino Art Fest, Selvino (BR) 2024

Universe 2024, inner chaos Magazzini musa, 2024 (AN)


2023

Imagination Paris, Free Bodies, Galerie Joseph Le Palais, PARIS May 2023

Personal exhibition: 'IMPATTO' is a solo show at the Porto Cesareo Film Festival, which explores the connection between body and Salento territory at the coastal towers bordering the Porto Cesareo natural reserve.


2022

Imagenation Milan, New Eyes, Fondazione Luciana Matalon MILAN September 2022

Collateral Maris, Things from Another World, June 2022

Nature in Shadows, Ombra magazine, finalist Photography contest, 2022

BESTSELECTED, Selected in the Best Selected, volume V, 2022


Other:

2019

Design-Re. Italian Institute of Photography. April 12, 2019 – 'Design-Re' The faces of national design during Milan Design Week 2019 at the WALL of the Italian Institute of Photography.



To see many more works, visit the profile: tatiana_cardellicchio on Instagram.