Selene Cardia was born in October 1995 in Sardinia, where she grew up in a small inland town. After a short period spent in Berlin, in 2016 she enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and in February...
Read MoreSelene Cardia was born in October 1995 in Sardinia, where she grew up in a small inland town. After a short period spent in Berlin, in 2016 she enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and in February of the academic year 2019/2020, she obtained the first level academic degree in Visual Arts, Painting. During these years she has dealt with themes ranging from an intimate investigation of the relationship between body, gesture and surface to the role played by images in the construction of identity, collective imagination and memory. Her thesis research Immagine, Storia, Pittura (Image, History, Painting), arises from the personal need to find a new approach to painting, in the light of a question: what are the “possible” images for a painter today? Literal question in the sense of the overproduction of images in the contemporary era and the sense of impotence and addiction that derives from it, but which goes beyond it referring to the artist's approach with the reality in which he lives and therefore to the possibility of taking a position in relation to it. Parallel to this theoretical research, the pictorial research develops which, through an informal language that is at the antipodes of the narrative and the didactic, already affirms that formal research, even when it seems to dig only into the problems of painting, is never disconnected from the time in which it was born and from the problems attached to it.
