ANTONELLA CUNSOLO
Too much, too little, never right

This photograph aims to visually narrate the conflictual relationship with one’s own body through exposed fragility, painful introspection, and the dialogue between light and shadow as a metaphor for emotional ambivalence. The body becomes a cage, a battlefield where emotions that are difficult to manage are concentrated: guilt, shame, anger, need for control.
Guilt, in particular, can take root deeply: for having eaten, for not being ‘enough’, for not being able to correspond to an ideal that is often inaccessible.
The dark environment aims to recall an existential solitude and the intimacy of an unspoken pain.
The painting on the wall depicts a serene landscape, in contrast with the restlessness of the subject: a possible distance between reality and desire. The portrait on the right can evoke judgment or expectation from others, or even a symbol of an internal confrontation with a child self that is no longer there.

Author
Born in Sicily in 1974. She graduated in Psychology in Rome and specialized in psychotherapy and phototherapy.
The projects she carries out move on the border between art and psychology. She is the author of two books: “Io non muoio” and “Noi siamo bellezza”, which are not simple collections of portraits: they are acts of love towards those who often feel invisible. They are emotional journeys where the gaze of the lens becomes a caress, testimony, truth.
With a conceptual language, she is also working on a series of photographic projects aimed at giving shape and face to complex issues such as mental distress, anxiety, depression, dissociation, eating disorders, trauma.

• 2025 1 st Winner IPA Contest, People/Other
• 2025 Gold Winner BIFA, Fine art/Other
• 2025 Silver Winner NY Photography Awards, Fine Art/Open Theme
• 2025 2ND Place ND Awards, Special/Open Theme Category
• 2025 Silver Winner TIFA Contest, Fine Art/Other
• 2025 Jury Top 5 Selection TIFA Contest

Website
www.antonellacunsolo.com

Instagram
@antonellacunsolostudio

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