Monia Marchionni (Italy 1981) is a visual artist and fine art photographer, graduated in Academy of Arts at Bologna, and a second degree inLiterature and Philosophy at Bologna with a specialization in History ofContemporary Art (2008).She is fascinated by photography for that "double glance" typical of themedium, the "already seen" become "never seen" with a different cut of the scene and with the imagination, where the boundary between reality and fiction becomes more and more confused. Photography allows her to show reality as she sees it: places swallowed by an evanescent atmosphere, metaphorical characters, every picture is poised between fiction and reality, like a dream. Monia photographs what she wants to see. With an introspective look she interprets the space connected to her own story as she sees it and not as it presents itself objectively. The Macro cosmos merges with its microcosm, with its affections, with its memories, often in the photos appear his friends, and his relatives. Composition, scenes constructed as cinematographic frames, and the extraordinary that mixes with the ordinary are the elements that characterize each of its images. Her photos will be exhibited in 2019 in the galleries of Tokyo, New York and Milan.
Monia has partecipated and won important prizes: Life Framer 2018 2nd prize in Street Life Category, IPA Lucie - International Photography Award 2018 (2 Honorable Mantion on Category Fine Art); Urban Dotart 2018, Finalist; Eneganart 2018 Finalist; Fine Art Photography Award 2018: she won two Nominee “Fine Art” Categorie and one Nominee “Open” categorie; Prize Malamegi Lab 9 winner cash prize 2018; Opera Award 2014; 54° Bugatti – Segantini Award 2013 - 3thprize winner; G.B. Salvi Award winner Critical Prize 2012; V and IV Arte Laguna Award, winner Press Prize 2009/2010; 20th Prize G. Morandi, 2005. In 2009 she was invited to exhibit at the 53° Venice Biennal for the collateral show Krossing, Forte Marghera - Mestre, curated by A. Bonifacio.
The most important solo show: "Esercizi di Resistenza", Palazzo del Ridotto - Galleria L'immagine Gallery of Cesena, curated by E. Agnoli 2012; "Prolegomeni", Spazio Mecenate, Rome, curated by S. Rella 2009. The Art Magazines "Arte In", "Juliet", "Kult", "Inside Art" and much more dedicate articles and interviews to them. The Vogue Italia magazine publishes her photos in Photovogue.
Among the important group exhibitions: Eneganart, Fortezza da Basso Florence (IT) 2018; Malamegi Lab 9 Venezia 2018, Last Young, curated by L. Respi 2013; Troubling Space, curated by C. Boemio 2012; Metamorphisms, Identity and Otherness, curated by C. Sala 2010; Biennal Young Artists of Benevento, selected by the art critic L. Marucci 2010; Big Bang Yourself - Arte Fiera Off curated by A. Zannoni 2010; Artistic Warnings at the Musei Fori Imperiali of Roma, curated by E. Ladovaz and M. Ratti 2009.
She exhibited in 2012 at the Affordable Art Fair art fair with the Case Aperte gallery in Bologna.
Since 2008 she has expressed himself almost exclusively with the photographic medium, at the beginning in collaboration with the fashion photographer Luca Bellumore realizes two series: "Differenziare-differire" (2008) and "Prolegomeni" (2009-2010)
It continues independently and in 2014, during a trip to Chile, born the series "Never Again empty in the desert" was awarded with the Nominee at the FIPA Awards in London in 2017 and the Honorable Mantions at the IPA-Lucie Awards of 2018. From 2016 to 2018 she works on the project "Fermo extraordinary visions" going to photograph the most important places in the city where she was born and show them how she lived them, how she feels them. She is currently working on two medium-term photographic projects, "The Gardens from the Sky" and "The Great Cold in July"; in which she explores the relationship with her mother by going to work on family photos until the day of her death, so the elaboration of the loss, she uses of photography as a therapy for the spirit.
