(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

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⦿ ongoing ⦿

MYR・2020An anthropological research about psychedelic experiences with psilocybin truffles with a facilitator, Eta, who works in Utrecht. Psilocybin can help people dealing with a variety of psychological and physical conditions.

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the atypicals・2021
The project documents a close-knit family near Bologna who practice libertarian education and homeschooling, weaving together their everyday life, values, and collective learning around an “ideal city” project. Through an intimate, long-term relationship, the work portrays education, community, and care as lived, shared practices that offer hope for alternative futures.

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• artistic residencies •


Helios・2025
Artistic residency at 7 Chakras Festival, Tuscania, (VT), Italy
Since I had a vivid image of a playful and sunny bright place, I decided to portray the people who join this magical gathering. Additionally, I wanted to create some prints using an off-camera photography process, such as anthotype, which is a print process created using photosensitive material from plants under the influence of light (e.g., UV light, sunlight). On this occasion, I used the power of turmeric and its yellowish/orangish pigments as a symbol of the brightness of the environment and the souls they experience such a celebration.

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DŌMO・2018
Kitsune Love Hotel・2018


This work was conceived during an artist residency at the Geidai University of Fine Arts in Tokyo, as part of the Fondazione Modena Arti Visive program, tutored by Tokihiro Sāto.

This project traces a journey through Japan to explore wabi-sabi as a worldview that embraces imperfection, impermanence, and incompleteness as forms of beauty and awareness. Through travel, aesthetic research, and self-portraits featuring a kitsune mask, the work reflects wabi-sabi as an ethical and perceptual practice—an attentive way of seeing that honours transience, subtlety, and care for the spaces we inhabit.

This body of images has been created in a love hotel in Osaka and features the artist wearing a kitsune mask. In Japanese culture, the kitsune is a supernatural fox associated with the Shinto deity Inari, known for intelligence, shape-shifting abilities, and an ambiguous nature that can be benevolent or deceptive, embodying transformation, illusion, and multiplicity.

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• before •


Del Sublime・2019
This work is a project initiated in 2017 that explores the Romantic notion of the Sublime as an attraction to potentially destructive forces, rooted in a personal experience of loss. Set in the volcanic landscape of the Campi Flegrei and Mount Vesuvius, the project intertwines geological danger with an ancestral journey, reconnecting the artist to her familial origins and territory.

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Hai quasi trent'anni・2020
This work reflects on the disillusionment of the post-2008 generation with a system that normalizes inequality and precarity, revealing the gap between dominant economic narratives and lived experience. It highlights how, particularly in Italy, structural conditions—not individual effort—undermine the promise that education and cultural work can lead to stability and fulfillment.

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Non avevamo null'altro da fare・2018
Project set during a workshop promoted by Yogurt Magazine in Rome, with the help of Francesco Rombaldi and his team, listed in the anthology Giorni Sospesi, published by Yogurt Magazine in 2018

Non avevamo null’altro da fare explores the summer atmosphere of living in Italy, away from the seaside but with the very slow rhythm of the countryside, where the only thing a young teen can do is to fall in love.

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Apnea・2016
Project realised during a workshop at Pratt Institute with Photo Workshop New York, tutored by Michael Ackerman

Back in those days, I felt like the city was trying to reject me and I was not getting any until I had a night walk in the industrial area of Red Hook. The negatives are from a little market I found in Williamsburg. Later on, I realized that soon after Trump would have been president for the first time.

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© Chiara Francesca Rizzuti