・✶ Chiara Francesca Rizzuti ✶・

 (she, they, he)
A human being based in Bologna (IT), curious about new ways of thinking about our future to create a new society and what we don't know yet, such as death, consciousness, and life, with an anthropological approach to photography.

@paraseleenium
chiarafrancescarizzuti@gmail.com

✴︎ about ✴︎

✴︎work ✴︎
• ongoing •
  1. Y・2026
  2. MYR・2020
  3. a natural diary・neverending I hope
  4. the atypicals・2021
• artistic residencies •
  1. Helios・2025
  2. Dōmo - Kitsune Love Hotel・2021
 • before •
  1. Del Sublime・2019
  2. Hai quasi trent’anni・2020
  3. Non avevamo null'altro da fare・2018
  4. Apnea・2016

✴︎ installation views ✴︎

✳︎ commissioned ✳︎

✴︎ paper sheet ✴︎

✴︎ commercial ✴︎

✴︎ contact ✴︎

✴︎ good company ✴︎


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✴︎ a natural diary ・neverending I hope✴︎

A Natural Diary is an ongoing visual and material research rooted in the observation of natural cycles, organic transformations, and intimate temporalities.
Conceived as a personal archive of fragments, traces, and encounters, the project moves through photography, collected materials, gestures of preservation, and forms of slow attention, constructing a diaristic language that exists between documentation and ritual.

Rather than attempting to represent nature as an external subject, the work emerges from a relationship of coexistence with the living environment. Plants, textures, light, decay, seasonal mutations, and bodily perceptions become part of a porous ecosystem in which the boundary between observer and observed progressively dissolves.

The diary becomes both a methodological and emotional device: a way to inhabit time differently. Against the accelerated temporality imposed by contemporary productivity and digital hypervisibility, A Natural Diary embraces slowness, repetition, and transformation as political and affective practices.
The project reflects on how attention itself can become an act of care and resistance.
Through an intuitive and process-based approach, images are not treated as fixed documents but as living surfaces capable of carrying memory, absence, tactile sensations, and latent emotional states. The work, therefore, questions the idea of photography as mere representation, approaching a more embodied and ecological image-making practice.

Influenced by anthropological research, ecofeminist perspectives, and processual forms of knowledge, A Natural Diary explores the possibility of reconnecting human experience with cyclical and more-than-human temporalities.
The natural element is not romanticised, but approached as a space of interdependence, vulnerability, transformation, and continuous negotiation.

Ultimately, the project functions as a fragmented atlas of coexistence: a visual meditation on impermanence, perception, and the silent ways in which bodies, human and non-human, leave traces on one another.
© Chiara Francesca Rizzuti