In your place
Italie
2017Jury
Every year and all over the world, 13.5 million under-aged girls are forced to marry much older men. Ludovica Bastianini asked herself how the mothers felt while dressing their daughters for the ceremony. She took photographs of very young models from fashion magazines and dressed them with pieces of lace that belonged to her mother. She thus created a process of identification between the young models and the young brides.
With the support of the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris
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About the artist
Ludovica Bastianini was born in 1986 in Naples. She graduated in History of Art in Naples and then studied photography and visual arts in Barcelona, Spain and Milano, Italy. Her project My Generation was selected in 2016 for the digital national archives of the Italian Foundation “Fondo Malerba per la Fotografia”. She now lives and works between Zurich, Switzerland, and Naples, Italy.