Tatiana Cardellicchio - Tulip Imperative

"Under the weight of the petals, the gaze folds into dream"

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#10 of the dictatorship of petals

The series "The Dictatorship of the Petals" is an invitation to recognize the dominant power of beauty in today’s world.
The petals, with their geometric perfection and pervasive presence in the image, hide the faces of the figures in the photographic series, transform and envelop, becoming a metaphor for a beauty that hides and imposes itself. Yet, in the end, the perspective can also be inverted: what at first glance appears as an aesthetic constraint becomes a path toward a beauty rooted in nature. Flowers do not merely dominate; they guide us, inviting us to reconsider our relationship with aesthetics, to surrender to a more organic and timeless harmony, where beauty is not an imposition but a possibility of renewal."

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Biography:
Tatiana Cardellicchio is a photographic artist known for her self-portraits. Tatiana Cardellicchio’s photographic work explores the deep link between human essence, nature, and the surrounding world, using self-portraiture and portraiture as tools of expression and discovery. Trained in Photography at CFP Bauer and at the Italian Institute of Photography in Milan, her works have been exhibited in prestigious national and international exhibitions, such as Imagenation Paris and New York. Her first work "IMPACT" won the silver prize at the "Prix de la Photographie" 2024

Exhibitions and shows:

2026

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

Christos Kapralos Museum, Greece


2025

Honorable mention in Art photography Best Photo Awards 2024-2025

Imagenation London (May 2025)

Endless Spring (photographic exhibition curated by Paratissima) Torino

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

Impact (solo show) LAB ex macello (Taranto)


2024

Solo show TEDx Woman Leverano "In-differences", 2024

"Naked-part of us" Rome 2024

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

"Nuovi corpi" 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

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 Salentine territory along 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 Milan Design Week 2019 at the WALL of the Italian Institute of Photography.


To see many more works on Instagram at profile: tatiana_cardellicchio
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