Bontà Teresa Letizia | I Started Breathing The Time
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The time. Fast, slow, infinite, rich, sterile, the time with which every day we confront each other. Here, I would like to describe this quarantine I’ve been in for over a month. Scanned and lived.
In early March came the first warnings of road closures, here in the north it all started before the rest of Italy. Traffic blockage, activities, and already the tension began to be felt. I don’t know when I would see the people I love; my family is away, I don’t know when I would return to my normal activities, work, photography, projects, everyday life.
The cases in China had already made me think a lot, and seeing these images of people upset, struggling in the new way of life, made me feel the fear, the discomfort, the modern perception of distances, It all influenced on my project.
And time was the one that accompanied me, spurred and even challenged during photo shoots. I managed to do a part of the shot, then the carnivorous quarantine stopped me, but also gave me a great opportunity: Living the everyday life in a different rhythm of time. I started breathing the time.
“The cases in China had already made me think a lot, and seeing these images of people upset, struggling in the new way of life, made me feel the fear, the discomfort, the modern perception of distances, It all influenced on my project. And time was the one that accompanied me, spurred and even challenged during photo shoots. I managed to do a part of the shot, then the carnivorous quarantine stopped me, but also gave me a great opportunity: Living the everyday life in a different rhythm of time. I started breathing the time.”
Bontà Teresa Letizia
Bontà Teresa Letizia was born in Licata Agrigento in 1981. She approached the world of amateur photography at a very young age.
The first subject that stimulated her was certainly her environment and the artistic and landscape beauty of her country. Among her favorite themes, there is no lack of people, women, the surrounding reality.
Her work is simple but attentive to details. Her photos tell what she is and what she has been. She exhibited her first fine art photography exhibition on 24/12/2017 in Licata, gaining the success of the city and the newspapers.
In September 2017, she participated in the competition Premio Arte Laguna in Venice. In April 2017, She exhibited her second photographic exhibition in Mestre, at the Atelier association. In the summer of 2018, she presented a photoshoot in Sicily in Palma DI Montechiaro, where she dared to go further, breaking through the wall of taboos. In essence, the kiss between two women in front of the church caused quite a stir from the population and newspapers.
The shots had the affirmative approval of the well-known stylist Stefano Gabbana who appreciated the shots on Instagram. In September 2018, she applied for the Lagoon Art Prize with a more intimate series.
She produced three photo shoots with a powerful impact that caused a sensation. Venezia Today published an article to give visibility to the shots but, above all, to the unusual subject. Amaggiodel2019 ranked second at the “MichelangeloVizzini” award for women and Sicily, also obtaining the Special Jury Prize for the shot that immortalizes two women kissing in the famous square of Palma DI Montechiaro. Remaining strong with the series of Sicily The artist’s work is presented at the International Festival of the Mediterranean in Mazzara del Vallo, shows ten shots that tell the story of Sicily of the work done in recent years.
On February 20, the international Lens Magazine featured Bontà Teresa Letizia’s work among the ten most prominent names in the field of Black and white photography, an essential showcase for the Sicilian artist. On April 10, 2020, Vogue exhibited a shot from her series in its online edition.
