VIA DELLA FORNACE 41 50125 FIRENZE
Izabela Jurcewicz
Through photography, Izabela Jurcewicz explores themes related to identity, the body, memory, and health. She received the Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation Award in 2021 (ICP) and the Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents in 2020 (Luma Arles & ENSP), and has been a finalist or awardee in several international competitions. Her work has been exhibited in over 30 shows, including at the International Center of Photography, ClampArt, RISD Museum, and in a collateral exhibition of the 59th Venice Biennale. She has participated in festivals such as Unseen Amsterdam, Month of Photography Bratislava, TIFF Festival, Fotofestival Łódź, and the Biennale of Photography in Poznań. She was an artist-in-residence at the School of Visual Arts and has been featured by institutions and publications including ICP, Luma Arles, Lenscratch, It’s Nice That, Fisheye, and Saatchi Art. Her first photobook, Body as a Negative, was published by Yoffy Press in 2022. She has lectured at venues such as the Griffin Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She holds an MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Izabela Jurcewicz
Through photography, Izabela Jurcewicz explores themes related to identity, the body, memory, and health. She received the Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation Award in 2021 (ICP) and the Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents in 2020 (Luma Arles & ENSP), and has been a finalist or awardee in several international competitions. Her work has been exhibited in over 30 shows, including at the International Center of Photography, ClampArt, RISD Museum, and in a collateral exhibition of the 59th Venice Biennale. She has participated in festivals such as Unseen Amsterdam, Month of Photography Bratislava, TIFF Festival, Fotofestival Łódź, and the Biennale of Photography in Poznań. She was an artist-in-residence at the School of Visual Arts and has been featured by institutions and publications including ICP, Luma Arles, Lenscratch, It’s Nice That, Fisheye, and Saatchi Art. Her first photobook, Body as a Negative, was published by Yoffy Press in 2022. She has lectured at venues such as the Griffin Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She holds an MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Body As a Living Archive
15.10 – 09.11.2025
Talk: October 15th, 5:00 PM (reservation required – info@rifugiodigitale.it)
Opening: October 15th, 6:30 PM
The body is a living archive, a place where experiences, memories, and profound transformations accumulate. In Body As a Living Archive, Izabela Jurcewicz offers an intimate and powerful narrative of her own story of illness and rebirth. At just 19 years old, a severe internal hemorrhage led to the discovery of a rare inter-organ tumor—an extraordinary and shocking event in her life and in her native Poland. After a nine-hour surgery, her body forever bears the… indelible marks of this trauma, marked by physical and emotional scars that tell a story of suffering but also resilience. For Izabela, photography becomes a fundamental tool to process and give shape to this somatic memory. Through her images, the memory of the body resurfaces, transforming lived pain into awareness and fragility into new strength. Her photographic series intertwine in a coherent and engaging path that forms the heart of this exhibition. Body As a Living Archive presents itself as a visual and emotional journey exploring the body as a space of resistance, care, and regeneration, capable of narrating stories of vulnerability but also rebirth. This exhibition represents the sixth chapter of the series Il Corpo che Abito, a project dedicated to contemporary photography, realized in collaboration with Forma Edizioni, investigating the relationship between identity, body, and memory through the work of highly sensitive and relevant artists. 
