Tatiana Cardellicchio - Red Eclipse

The artwork is a fine art Giclée print produced on premium satin 270 g paper, in a limited edition of 20 copies at this size, printed using Epson UltraChrome HD to ensure intense color rendering and exceptional longevity, representing the industry standard.
Image dimension: 30 × 40 IN including white border.
Limited edition: 20 copies, each signed and numbered on the back.
Authenticity: each copy is accompanied by a hand-stamped and signed certificate of authenticity, guaranteeing the provenance and uniqueness of the work. Also included in the shipment is a dedicated page describing the shot and the author’s biography.
Careful shipping: Delivered in a protective tube without a frame, for optimal protection during transport.

La Dittatura dei Petali is a photographic series that investigates beauty as a form of quiet power. In this project, petals do not serve a decorative function: they represent an imposed beauty that replaces the face and guides the gaze, transforming the human body into an ornamental support and controlled presence.
Through constructed compositions, restrained poses, and a rigorous staging, the flower becomes a visual device that disciplines perception. Nature, traditionally associated with spontaneity and freedom, is organized into symmetric and artificial structures, revealing its authoritarian potential. The body appears monumental, immobilized, or subjugated to an aesthetic order that privileges harmony and grace at the expense of identity.
Within this visual regime, the gaze is never neutral: it is darkened, delayed, or guided. Beauty acts as an ambivalent force, capable of seducing and at the same time limiting, hiding control behind a refined surface. La Dittatura dei Petali questions the boundary between elegance and coercion, interrogating the role of contemporary aesthetics in shaping the body and imagery.

Biography:

Born in Lecce, Tatiana Cardellicchio is a visual artist and photographer whose gaze feeds on the light of the South, transformed into poetic matter. Her work unfolds as a silent dialogue between body, identity, and nature, in a visual search that is at once intimate and universal. A graduate in Photography from the Italian Institute of Photography, she builds suspended narratives between aesthetics and awareness, questioning contemporary identity through images that ask for slowness, listening, and attention.
In 2025 she was Floral Artist of the Year 2025, published by Artist of the Year Award and IPFA Award 2025
Awarded Solo Exhibition – Brazil 2026.
In 2024 she received the silver medal at Prix de la Photographie Paris in the Portrait/Self-Portrait category, for the project Impatto, a personal reflection on the bond between body and the Salento landscape. Her works have been exhibited in international contexts (Imagenation Paris, London, New York), festivals (Paratissima), galleries and museums (National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, Medina Roma), outlining a coherent and recognizable poetics that moves between self-representation, emotional ecology, and identity aesthetics.

2026

First Place, Motif Collective Photography Awards (Reflections)

101 ArtBook: Photography Edition, Arts to Hearts Project; Featured Interview

Floral Artists of the Year 2025, publication by Artist of the Year Award

IPFA Award 2025
Awarded Solo Exhibition – Brazil 2026

Group exhibition Home-S, Photopolis Agrinio Photo Festival
Christos Kapralos Museum, Greece (2026)


2025

Honorable mention in Art photography Best Photo Awards 2024-2025

Imagenation London (May 2025)

Endless Spring (photographic show curated by Paratissima) Turin

I Am- I Am, Female Photography, National Etruscan Museum Villa Giulia (Rome)

Impatto (solo show) LAB ex macello (Taranto)


2024

"Naked-part of us" Rome 2024

Silver Prize at Prix de la Photographie Paris
in the Portrait / Self-portrait 2024

"Nuovi corpi" Silent Dialogues between body and nature (Rome) September 2024

BESTSELECTED Vol. 7 in the SERIES WINNERS category, 2024

Imagination NewYork (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

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

Personal exhibition: "IMPACT" solo show during the Porto Cesareo Film Festival, which tells the link between body and Salento territory near the coastal towers bordering the Porto Cesareo nature reserve.


2022

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

Collateral Maris, Cose dell'altro mondo, June 2022

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

BESTSELECTED, Selected in Best Selected, Volume V, 2022


other:

2019

Design-Re. Italian Institute of Photography. April 12, 2019 – “Design-RE” The faces of national design on the occasion of Milano Design Week 2019 at the WALL of the Italian Institute of Photography.


EPOCH
After 2000