Tatiana Cardellicchio - Fingerprints

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.
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.


Fingerprints is a self-portrait born from the meeting between body and landscape, where the skin becomes an extension of the earth and the earth imprints itself as a trace on the skin. The naked figure, lying on the sand marked by the waves, offers itself without a face, subtracting individual identity to become a universal body. The rhythmic lines of the seabed recall grooves, engravings, enlarged fingerprints: primary signs, natural memories that speak of origin, belonging, and transformation.
The work is part of the research into the relationship between identity, the body, and the natural environment, examining how the landscape shapes self-perception. Fingerprints thus becomes a reflection on the imprint we leave and on the imprint the world leaves on us.
The self-portrait “Fingerprints” was exhibited during the exhibition “Naked – Part of Us” at Medina Gallery (Rome), in the exhibition “Nuovi Corpi” at ContArt (Rome), and was presented in the exhibition “Impatto” on the occasion of TEDx Women 2024.

Bio:
Tatiana Cardellicchio was born in Lecce, where the light of the South becomes visual matter. Graduating in Photography from the Institute of Photography, she has always moved between visual arts and identity research. In 2024, she received the silver medal at the Prix de la Photographie (PX3), an accolade that honors the silent strength of her gaze.

Exhibitions and awards (selected):

2025

Honorable Mention at 1839 Awards – Art of Storytelling 2025

Finalist in Autoportrait KLP Photo Awards

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)

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.