Tatiana Cardellicchio - Soft Mandate
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In Soft Mandate, the lilies thread through the body and hide the gaze, turning their delicacy into a silent form of authority. The flower is no longer just an ornament: it becomes a presence that directs the pose, redefines identity, and imposes its own beauty. The work explores the subtle boundary between grace and coercion, between what seduces and what, almost imperceptibly, takes control.
THE SERIES
The work belongs to the series “Dittatura dei petali – The Aesthetic Regime,” an autobiographical and conceptual photographic project by Tatiana Cardellicchio.
In the series, flowers — traditionally associated with grace, femininity, and decoration — transform into devices of control. Through carefully constructed self-portraits, the artist investigates the pressure exerted on the female body by aesthetic ideals and the constant demand to monitor, correct, and shape one’s image.
The project explores the tension between imposed identity and image, seduction and coercion, intimacy and performance, conformity and resistance. The face is often hidden or replaced by the flowers: beauty thus ceases to be a simple ornament and takes the form of a regime.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Digital photography, printed and signed in 2026.
Fine art Giclée print produced on premium satin paper 270 g/m² with Epson UltraChrome HD pigment inks, chosen for chromatic intensity, tonal depth, and long-term color stability.
Overall print dimensions: 30 × 40 cm
Limited edition of 20 copies in this format. Each print is hand-signed and numbered on the back.
The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity, stamped and hand-signed by the artist, confirming its provenance and belonging to the declared edition.
IMPORTANT SHIPPING INFORMATION
The print is sold unframed and without a passe-partout.
To ensure protection during transport, it is carefully rolled and shipped inside a rigid tube. The print will not be delivered flat.
Any ambient or framed images are for illustrative purposes only. For the actual dimensions of the work, refer to the measurements in the description.
Bio
Tatiana Cardellicchio is an Italian visual artist and photographer whose gaze feeds on the light of Southern Italy, transformed into poetic matter. Her research examines the relationship between body, identity, nature, and gaze, focusing on how identity is shaped, masked, and negotiated through aesthetic codes.
A graduate in Photography from the Italian Institute of Photography, she builds narratives suspended between aesthetics and awareness. Through self-portraiture and constructed scenes, she uses the body as subject and material, turning photography into a space of inquiry rather than mere representation.
Her work explores the tension between beauty and power, ornament and resistance, surface and depth. Flowers, fabrics, light, and symbolic objects recur as visual devices that appear decorative yet reveal mechanisms of control, visibility, and transformation. Her images invite slowness, listening, and attentiveness, questioning how bodies are seen, inhabited, and understood.
In 2025 she was named Floral Artist of the Year 2025, with publication by Artist of the Year Award, and she received the IPFA Award 2025 – Awarded Solo Exhibition, with a solo show in Brazil in 2026. In 2026 she also won First Prize at the Motif Collective Photo Contest – Reflection. In 2024 she received the Silver Medal at the Prix de la Photographie Paris in the Portrait/Self-Portrait category for the project Impact.
Her works have been exhibited in international contexts, including ImageNation Paris, London, and New York, as well as in festivals, galleries, and museums such as Paratissima, the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, Medina Roma, and the Christos Kapralos Museum in Greece. Her practice defines a coherent and recognizable poetics, moving between self-representation, emotional ecology, and aesthetic identity.
Selected Exhibitions
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
Home-s, Christos Kapralos Museum, Greece
2025
* Imagenation London, London, UK
* Endless Spring, Paratissima, Turin, Italy
* I Am – Io Sono. Photography and Feminine Identity, National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, Rome, Italy
* Impatto (solo exhibition), LAB Ex Macello, Taranto, Italy
2024
* Imagination, One Art Space Gallery, Tribeca, New York, USA
* Naked – Part of You, Medina Gallery, Rome, Italy
* Nuovi Corpi. Silent Dialogues Between Body and Nature, Rome, Italy
* Selvino Art Fest, Selvino, Italy
2023
* Free Bodies, Imagenation Paris, Galerie Joseph Le Palais, Paris, France
* Impatto (solo exhibition), Porto Cesareo Film Festival, Italy
2022
* New Eyes, Imagenation Milan, Fondazione Luciana Matalon, Milan, Italy
Awards & Recognitions
* Honorable Mention, Best Photography Awards, 2025
* Silver Medal, Prix de la Photographie Paris (PX3), Portrait / Self-Portrait Category, 2024
* BESTSELECTED Vol. 7, Series Winner, 2024
* Finalist, Autoportrait Photography Prize, 2025
* Official Selection, Trieste Photo Days, 2025
In Soft Mandate, the lilies thread through the body and hide the gaze, turning their delicacy into a silent form of authority. The flower is no longer just an ornament: it becomes a presence that directs the pose, redefines identity, and imposes its own beauty. The work explores the subtle boundary between grace and coercion, between what seduces and what, almost imperceptibly, takes control.
THE SERIES
The work belongs to the series “Dittatura dei petali – The Aesthetic Regime,” an autobiographical and conceptual photographic project by Tatiana Cardellicchio.
In the series, flowers — traditionally associated with grace, femininity, and decoration — transform into devices of control. Through carefully constructed self-portraits, the artist investigates the pressure exerted on the female body by aesthetic ideals and the constant demand to monitor, correct, and shape one’s image.
The project explores the tension between imposed identity and image, seduction and coercion, intimacy and performance, conformity and resistance. The face is often hidden or replaced by the flowers: beauty thus ceases to be a simple ornament and takes the form of a regime.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Digital photography, printed and signed in 2026.
Fine art Giclée print produced on premium satin paper 270 g/m² with Epson UltraChrome HD pigment inks, chosen for chromatic intensity, tonal depth, and long-term color stability.
Overall print dimensions: 30 × 40 cm
Limited edition of 20 copies in this format. Each print is hand-signed and numbered on the back.
The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity, stamped and hand-signed by the artist, confirming its provenance and belonging to the declared edition.
IMPORTANT SHIPPING INFORMATION
The print is sold unframed and without a passe-partout.
To ensure protection during transport, it is carefully rolled and shipped inside a rigid tube. The print will not be delivered flat.
Any ambient or framed images are for illustrative purposes only. For the actual dimensions of the work, refer to the measurements in the description.
Bio
Tatiana Cardellicchio is an Italian visual artist and photographer whose gaze feeds on the light of Southern Italy, transformed into poetic matter. Her research examines the relationship between body, identity, nature, and gaze, focusing on how identity is shaped, masked, and negotiated through aesthetic codes.
A graduate in Photography from the Italian Institute of Photography, she builds narratives suspended between aesthetics and awareness. Through self-portraiture and constructed scenes, she uses the body as subject and material, turning photography into a space of inquiry rather than mere representation.
Her work explores the tension between beauty and power, ornament and resistance, surface and depth. Flowers, fabrics, light, and symbolic objects recur as visual devices that appear decorative yet reveal mechanisms of control, visibility, and transformation. Her images invite slowness, listening, and attentiveness, questioning how bodies are seen, inhabited, and understood.
In 2025 she was named Floral Artist of the Year 2025, with publication by Artist of the Year Award, and she received the IPFA Award 2025 – Awarded Solo Exhibition, with a solo show in Brazil in 2026. In 2026 she also won First Prize at the Motif Collective Photo Contest – Reflection. In 2024 she received the Silver Medal at the Prix de la Photographie Paris in the Portrait/Self-Portrait category for the project Impact.
Her works have been exhibited in international contexts, including ImageNation Paris, London, and New York, as well as in festivals, galleries, and museums such as Paratissima, the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, Medina Roma, and the Christos Kapralos Museum in Greece. Her practice defines a coherent and recognizable poetics, moving between self-representation, emotional ecology, and aesthetic identity.
Selected Exhibitions
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
Home-s, Christos Kapralos Museum, Greece
2025
* Imagenation London, London, UK
* Endless Spring, Paratissima, Turin, Italy
* I Am – Io Sono. Photography and Feminine Identity, National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, Rome, Italy
* Impatto (solo exhibition), LAB Ex Macello, Taranto, Italy
2024
* Imagination, One Art Space Gallery, Tribeca, New York, USA
* Naked – Part of You, Medina Gallery, Rome, Italy
* Nuovi Corpi. Silent Dialogues Between Body and Nature, Rome, Italy
* Selvino Art Fest, Selvino, Italy
2023
* Free Bodies, Imagenation Paris, Galerie Joseph Le Palais, Paris, France
* Impatto (solo exhibition), Porto Cesareo Film Festival, Italy
2022
* New Eyes, Imagenation Milan, Fondazione Luciana Matalon, Milan, Italy
Awards & Recognitions
* Honorable Mention, Best Photography Awards, 2025
* Silver Medal, Prix de la Photographie Paris (PX3), Portrait / Self-Portrait Category, 2024
* BESTSELECTED Vol. 7, Series Winner, 2024
* Finalist, Autoportrait Photography Prize, 2025
* Official Selection, Trieste Photo Days, 2025
Details
Date of print
2026
Artist
Tatiana Cardellicchio
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Title of artwork
Soft Mandate
Condition
Extremely fine
Technique
Digital print
Height
40 cm
Width
30 cm
Signature
Hand signed
Genre
Fine art photography
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