Florence Di Benedetto

Florence Di Benedetto was born in 1975. After graduating from the Italian Institute of Photography in Milan, she began working as a fashion and still-life photographer. At the same time she undertakes a very personal research, focused on the contamination between photography and painting. In 2001 she exhibited her works for the first time at the Ken Damy Museum of Contemporary Photography, in Brescia. She began to collaborate with the photographer Maurizio Galimberti and for two years he devoted herself to developing the artistic potential of instant photography. In 2002 she took part in the photography biennial in Paris with the Caractere gallery. This is followed by a long period of research and study on the possibilities of encounter between photography and painting in a mixed technique aimed at the original interpretation of metropolitan landscapes. "Florence Di Benedetto has total control of both the photographic and pictorial aspects and this allows her to obtain a dialectical synthesis of the two expressiveness in her works. Although photography is the starting point, it is the pictorial gesture that then intervenes decisively. The color illuminates only some limited areas and in this way the white and black acquire a greater fluidity, exalting themselves in a relationship between fullness and emptiness that makes the image acquire a sense of depth that is both visual and symbolic because it does not stop the 'image but puts it in a context where it acquires an accentuated dynamism. " (Roberto Mutti)