FINE-ART | Monia Merlo

MONIA MERLO

MEMORIES

C'è bisogno di una zona appartata, nella semioscurità, come quando si va in soffitta, nei pomeriggi d'estate, quando tutti gli altri sonnecchiano, c'è quella penombra speciale, magica. Le cose sono diverse in quella luce. In quella sottrazione di luce.

S P A C E
The woman's body incarnates the space that surrounds it, building her own tormented world. She is deep in thoughts, her gestures are intended to defend herself, to gather her soul within her inner self.
In these shots mutilated, evanescent and shoved in a corner, the poetry of the location is preserved. These portraits are self-investigation, it represents an attempt to get closer to the nature of one's self and to obtain ultimate answers and is generally doomed to failure.
These dilapidated, abandoned Interiors, rich in memory and signs that refer to somebody else's lived and completed life, are still capable of manifesting their vital presence.

Photography/Creative Direction: Monia Merlo
Model: Maria Tessariol

vogue pic of the day nude body
the best of photovogue 2015

QUASI UNA SOLITUDINE

THE EMPTY ROOMS

THE EMPTY ROOMS

Photography/Creative Direction: Monia Merlo
Hair & make-up: Marcela Bantea
Fashion design: Silvia Bisconti
Model: Angela Xu BOTANICA collage digitale with flowers

inspired by the paintings of Vilhelm Hammershøi, Photography/Creative Direction: Monia Merlo
Designers: Raptus&Rose, Sara Boatto
Hair/Make-up: Marcela Bantea
Models: Martina Gerbi, Erica Modotti

THE POETRY OF SILENCE | Part I

F E M M E F L E U R
I learned to love the gardens, their changing beauty, shimmering in the rhythm of the seasons. I am fascinated by the nature of the garden, which surrounds and protects from the outside. It preserves. You enter into a garden with silence and respect, aware that it should not be stepped on, that flowers are not to be uprooted.

EUPHORBIA
Photography/Creative Direction: Monia Merlo
Model: Giulia Beltrame digital collage with flowers

I learned to love the gardens, their changing beauty, shimmering in the rhythm of the seasons. I am fascinated by the nature of the garden, which surrounds and protects from the outside. It preserves. You enter into a garden with silence and respect, aware that it should not be stepped on, that flowers are not to be uprooted. A garden is a space of silent contemplation, almost a sacred place. I like to think that the women of my photographs live in a ‘Secret Garden’ of their own, a protected and enclosed space, which we can only approach with care and patience. It takes patience and care for the women I portray to talk about themselves. They don’t exhibit their feelings, but prefer instead to barely whisper them, between the shadows and the light, they let those feelings be glimpsed in the silent play of leaves and flowers. I like to use flowers and plants in my photography, their delicate structure allowing me to hint at the inner world of my protagonists. Even when the garden is not there, it can erupt from within, almost like a flower that suddenly materializes on the body of my slender muses. The mental place where they feel safe blossoms in the physical space inhabited by their bodies.

Photography/Creative Direction: Monia Merlo
Hair: Marina Jekic
Model: Giulia Beltrame

T R A G E D Y A N D D R E A M S

Portraits of women wordlessly explore emotion. Through specific location choices and the use of natural lighting, she recreates the dreamy atmosphere of pre-Raphaelite paintings. Women float in ponds, their bodies mingling with vegetation and dark waters to create ecosystems of sorrow.

THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE
Photography/Creative Direction: Monia Merlo
Designer: Dries van Noten
Hair/Make-up: Marcela Bantea
Models: Erica Modotti

THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE

Photography/Creative Direction: Monia Merlo
Designer: Raptus&Rose
Model: Giulia Beltrame A DOLL'S HOUSE

HIDDEN IN THE MOOD OF SPRING

HIDDEN IN THE MOOD OF SPRING

Photography/Creative Direction: Monia Merlo
?Model: Eleonora Trento
Designer: Anna Fucà
Hair: Marina Jekic
Make-up: Ilaria Baggio

DREAMING OF ANOTHER WORLD

DREAMING OF ANOTHER WORLD

THE POETRY OF SILENCE | Part II

SILENCE workshop roma
Photography/Creative Direction: Monia Merlo
Designer: Anna Fucà
Hair/Make-up: Martina Chiacchio
Model: Giulia Beltrame

C R I S A L I D E
?Chrysalis, or change, transmutation. It is in this apparent death, temporary immobility that form the wings that will lead to new life.
Chrysalis Series: 2012-2016
Photography/Creative Direction: Monia Merlo

Photography/Creative Direction: Monia Merlo
Model: Elsa Facchin
D A N A E
inspired by the female nude painting

BACKSTAGE SS 2014

SO FULL OF DREAMS

T H E B A T H R O O M
inspired by the paintings of Edgar Degas

Photography/Creative Direction: MONIA MERLO
Beauty: Marcela Bantea
model: Giulia Beltrame

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