PAOLA BERRETTA
Monster Generation

According to some studies as well as my own personal experience, it’s possible to affirm that at least 7 out of 10 people between the ages of 19 and 30 have problems easily getting to sleep.
Our generation is one of nocturnal animals, born into the anxiety of never being good enough, hunting for solutions found under cushions, children of a digital era that illuminates us as the city sleeps, putting us into contact with the people of the night. Vampires that have overturned their usual feeding habits, scattering crumbs over bedsheets, that suck their real nutrition from books, knowledge in the sacred silence of the night.
This project is a journey awaiting sleep, that moment in which your blankets weave together with your thoughts, absences are bare feet during icy nights, insomnia keeps your eyes open as if your very soul could see in the dark. The shutter becomes testimony to invisible dynamics, that creates space in the intimacy of a private room and caresses long waits or hope.

Author
Paola Berretta was born in ' 95 in the warm hinterland of Sicily, Italy.
She graduated in Ceramic Design in Caltagirone (Catania). From 2016 to 2018 she attended to the Spazio Labo’of Bologna the biennal course of photography.
This important school provided a big opportunity to reinforce her love and passion for “Images and pictures”.
During her student years, research was original and planned investigation undertaken with the prospect of gaining new technical knowledge and understanding: phenomenology of art, semiotic, multimedia and images.
In addition to the theory her artistic research focused on photography classes in studio, still life, architecture, documentary, planning, photographic archive and editing.
She lives currently in Rome.From some years she works on projects about persons, intimacy of human being, habits, quirks and disaffection to the “word”. In her eyes art of prohography is the best way to transcode a feeling in according to curiosity and thirst for knowledge.

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