“The idea of capturing life through a camera reassures her,” writes Camilla Fatticcioni in Artribune, which features an in-depth article on Pelle, the exhibition by Giulia Bersani on view at Rifugio Digitale from January 29 to February 23, 2025. This solo show marks the beginning of Il Corpo che Abito, a curatorial series conceived by Irene Alison and curated by Alison together with Paolo Cagnacci.
The article strongly conveys the essence of Giulia Bersani’s work: an intimate and radical exploration of the body as a space of freedom, desire, and resistance. In her analog photographs, Irene Alison writes, “skin becomes a living landscape, crossed by fluids, emotions, and scars. The bodies are hungry for life, far from any polished aesthetic: naked, imperfect, real.”
The project, inaugurated on January 29, 2025, in the presence of the artist and curators, aligns with Rifugio Digitale’s vision—deeply rooted in the dialogue between intimacy and space, identity and architecture. In collaboration with Forma Edizioni and Associazione Infoto Firenze, Il Corpo che Abito seeks to bring the body back to the center of photographic discourse: as boundary, as language, as living matter resisting the virtualization of experience.
With Pelle, Giulia Bersani gives voice to a visceral photography—one that seeks neither compromise nor approval, but dives deep into the flesh of the real. An exhibition to see, to feel, to inhabit.