Tatiana Cardellicchio - Soft Mandate

The work belongs to the series “Dictatorship of Petals – The Aesthetic Regime,” an autobiographical and conceptual photographic project by Tatiana Cardellicchio.

In the series, flowers—traditionally associated with grace, femininity, and decoration—become instruments of control. Through carefully constructed self-portraits, the artist explores the pressure exerted on the female body by aesthetic ideals and the constant demand to monitor, correct, and shape one’s own image.

The project explores the tension between identity and imposed image, seduction and constraint, intimacy and spectacle, conformity and resistance. The face is often hidden or replaced by flowers: beauty thus ceases to be a simple ornament and takes on the form of a regime.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Digital photograph, printed and signed in 2026.

Fine art Giclée print made on premium 270 gsm satin paper with Epson UltraChrome HD pigment inks, selected for their color intensity, tonal depth, and exceptional long-term stability.

Overall print dimensions: 30 × 40 cm

Limited edition of 20 copies in this format. Each copy is signed and hand-numbered on the back.

The work comes with a certificate of authenticity, stamped and hand-signed by the artist, attesting to its provenance and membership in the stated edition.

IMPORTANT SHIPPING INFORMATION

The print is sold without a frame or mount.

To ensure it is protected during transit, it is carefully wrapped and shipped rolled inside a rigid tube. The print will therefore not be delivered flat.

Any styled or framed images are for illustrative purposes only. Please refer to the measurements given in the description for the actual dimensions of the work.


Bio

Tatiana Cardellicchio is an Italian visual artist and photographer whose perspective is nourished by the light of Southern Italy, transformed into poetic material. Her practice explores the relationship between body, identity, nature, and the gaze, focusing on how identity is shaped, masked, and negotiated through aesthetic codes.
A graduate in Photography from the Italian Institute of Photography, she creates narratives suspended between aesthetics and awareness. Through self-portraiture and constructed scenes, she uses the body as both subject and material, transforming photography into a space for 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 but 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 a publication by Artist of the Year Award, and received the IPFA Award 2025 – Awarded Solo Exhibition, with a solo exhibition in Brazil in 2026. In 2026, she also received First Prize in 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 Impatto.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at ImageNation Paris, London, and New York, as well as at 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 distinctive 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