The body is a sensitive topic, fertile terrain, a changing landscape. Giulia Bersani touches it with her camera’s eye, without shame, without fear. Close up – very close – inside the folds of the skin, in its scars, between the hairs, between the legs. There is nothing reassuring about her rebellious bodies; they reject the rules, the expectations, the anxiety of judgement and the dictatorship of definitions. They are not smooth, not shapely; they are naked and hungry. Hungry for life, for intimacy, for freedom. And they don’t give a damn about all the rest.
They are bodies that pulsate, pant, weep. Crossroads of desires and passions, fluid bodies made of fluids: sweat, blood and saliva.

Giulia, 32, tells their stories, mingles with them, lies in their beds and in their arms, shows us their physicality in the most expressive sense of that word, appropriate for a project of flesh and matter – with analogue photography. Her work has gained traction in recent years, also thanks to the following she has acquired on Instagram. She has a raw, visceral energy that finds compromise impossible, whether it is toward media censure or the demands of the glossy reviews. She has totally interiorized her rough edges.

Skin by Giulia Bersani – the first personal exhibition of the new cycle that Rifugio Digitale devotes to contemporary photography:
The Body I Live In, conceived by Irene Alison and curated by Irene Alison and Paolo Cagnacci – focused on the dimension of the human body as the outer limit of human identity, point of contact for our awareness of the world, on which we build our relationships, as a cry of rebellion.