Flowers Drink The River, by Pia-Paulina Guilmoth, is an intimate and visually enchanted account of the first two years of her gender transition, set amidst the natural landscapes of rural Maine.

Presented in collaboration with Cortona On The Move, the exhibition will also be on view in Cortona from July 17 to November 2, establishing a complementary dialogue between photography and video. The event also marks the launch of (Pre)Visioni, the photographic podcast by Rifugio Digitale curated by Irene Alison and directed by Paolo Cagnacci. The first episode, dedicated to the photographer’s poetic and darkly imaginative world,… will feature guest Paolo Woods, Artistic Director ofCortona On The Move. Each photo is a ritual, a promise, a secret. Each photo opens a window onto a borderland of dream and mystery, of grace and wonder. In Flowers Drink The River, on view at Rifugio Digitale from July 17, American photographer Pia-Paulina Guilmoth shares and celebrates the early years of her gender transition, experienced within a conservative community in rural Maine. Through her connection with the natural world, she carves out a safe space where she can inhabit her new skin, nurture her desires, and weave a relationship with something ancient and primal. In her images, Guilmoth traps stars in spider webs and captures the moon in a pond, celebrating the beauty and magic surrounding her. Her work is made of long waits, wanderings in the forest’s darkness, quiet relationships with night creatures, unexpected apparitions, and an ineffable quality that renders her images as powerful as a hymn and as delicate as a caress. For her, nature becomes a place of solace, a space to observe and learn from the behavior of animals, insects, and plants, and to draw from them a lesson in perseverance.