"...Symbol, when recognizable, is the icon of absolute values, more than words. When symbol, language and image meet, the tale becomes the best way to tell stories that become universal from personal. A little girl turning her back on us, with the background of sea,sky and land all together, all these things generate an image that has a deep impact and meanings: Alessandra Baldoni’s shots are magnets that attract and repel in the same time.
Here is Little Red Riding Hood and the wood, here is Alice with her dreams hold in the tea-pot of the Mad-Hatter and SnowWhite with her apple that is love and death together.
Fables heroines or lonely lonely women, these subject are composed by the artist in shuts of stunning beauty.
The actors are conscious characters, no fakes here but composure, balancing from solemn corporeal stillness to sincere emotional vibration.
Their way to be so enigmatic, in a certain way perverse, becomes sweetness of a restless mind, sensible and hidden in those tracks that like pages of a diary, escort the intimate journey of the photographers’ eye. The sets of this journey are the background paintings of a nature wild and familiar: woods, the sea, the grass, dead leaves in autumn, romantic skies, her stylistic key is the chromatic saturation ( red- green, light- shadow, life- death, reality- dream ). -Luca Beatrice-
