Alessia Morellini, born in 1985, lives and works in Modena. She has two passions that animate her life: photography and travel. She started at university as a self-taught photographer, capturing first the solitary and aseptic sceneries of the Po Valley and then she moved her research outside the national borders.
Fascinated by the dystopian aspect of everyday life, she shows a penchant for decontextualising details, natural and urban landscapes, allowing them to stand out as alien images.
She has collaborated with Repubblica, Image mag and digital magazines ( C41, coy culture, somewheremegazine, our.momentum, peach-megazine, no.more.mondays..), she also works as a freelance photographer for some brands in the textile area of Carpi and Modena.
About I believe in simple things – words by Alessia Morellini:
I wanted to focus the lens on my everyday life, on the few faces and bodies that have surrounded me over the past few months, on the gestures that are sometimes banal but have taken on a new meaning, I have looked carefully, uncovering interesting details that I would surely have ignored years ago.
I want to show the calm, the endless afternoons, the freedom to live slowly, the habits forgotten in the chaotic life that used to devour us.
When all this is over, I will remember how gestures and apparently insignificant things filled my days, acquiring value and importance, deliberately giving them an almost dreamlike connotation.
It is the beauty, intensity and poetry of the ordinary, in a world of sensationalism and excess.
