Francesca Woodman

At the age of seventeen American photographer Francesca Woodman went to the Rhode Island School of Design.

She had almost no forniture when she moved in the industrial building in Providence while attending her studies in 1975.

There where just some sundry objects such as a fish bowl, animal furs, a mirror and some dead birds.

All enclosed in a space whose texture of scratched walls and wooden floors she found inspiration in this intimacy with her own space.

During her twenty-two years of life the artist produced a wide series of self-portraits.

Using the elements around her, she managed to create a total fusion with the sorroundings, capturing suspended moments leading to a state of mind.

Time and space are illusions, as the body itself magically appears and disappears in the squared frame.

Most of her black and white photographs show a ghostly presence of a young woman through different landscapes and places such as Rome, New york, Providence and MacDowell Colony.

The pictures above is part of a wide series took in the house she used to live in Providence.

The artistic combination between the soft intimacy of the bodies with the angularity of the geometric rules is at the base of incredible composition.

I choosed this work of Francesca Woodman because I found it inspiring for my last project and for a future one.

Bibliography:

·Francesca Woodman, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Zurich 1998 France

·49thparallel.bham.ac.uk/back/issue15/rus.htm

· studio-international.co.uk/photo/woodman.asp