SOFIA ROSALIA FIORAMONTI

Sofia Rosalia Fioramonti is a multidisciplinary artist working between photography, video, and painting, whose practice moves between documentary language and visual poetry. She is interested in the relationships between body, territory, and memory, and in how intimate experience can expand into something collective. During her residency, she developed a project titled Ephemera, centered on the life cycle of flowers, from blooming to dissolution.

The context of Boisbuchet had a profound impact on the direction of her work. Surrounded by nature, architecture, and design, she became increasingly attentive to small, fragile presences within the landscape. She began collecting flowers that were already in transformation, some still vibrant, others beginning to fade. She was drawn to that suspended moment in which beauty and decay coexist.

To document this process, she used a negative scanner instead of a camera. The scanner allowed her to record each subtle shift in texture and color, making time itself visible as a living material. The act of scanning became slow and almost ritualistic. Rather than searching for a decisive moment, she focused on duration, on the gradual passage from presence to disappearance. The flowers began to resemble bodies, fragile entities undergoing inevitable change.

The final work took the form of a dual-channel video installation. The metamorphosis of the flowers was interwoven with verses from Book XV of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, particularly the line “Omnia mutantur, nihil interit.” The soundtrack, Tape 23 Track 4 by Ahmed Malek and Natureboy Flako, introduced a subtle rhythm that accompanied the visual transformation. Together, image, text, and sound created a meditation on impermanence and continuity. The project reflects on how nothing truly vanishes, but rather shifts form.