Ilaria Abbiento

Ilaria Abbiento is an Italian artist.
Her research, focused on the theme of the sea, starts from a deep introspective immersion aimed at constructing a poetic narrative
investigating her inner ocean. The artist expresses himself essentially through photography and elaborates her works using material elements in relation to the images, sometimes dotted with poetic and literary texts. Her practice ranges from installations
site-specific for the video. Her artistic investigation explores the landscape, reveals geographies of thought, imaginary cartographies from which the islands of her internal archipelago emerge. The photographic images of her, colored in soft shades, evoke the suspension of time and convey the vision of a lyrical gaze on the outside world. Her study of her is an observatory on the sea, a fluid and allegorical element of existence, of which she observes the movement, change, tempera and temperature.
In the sea she is continually lost to find herself.
Her works have been exhibited in prestigious art galleries and museums both in Italy and abroad such as the PAC-Pavilion of Contemporary Art in Milan, Al Blu di Prussia in Naples, Pac / Porto d’Arte Contemporanea in Salerno, Il Fondaco Arte Contemporanea in Bra, Le Quadrilatère Galerie in Beauvais in France, The Art Pur Gallery in Riyadh and Hafez Gallery in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, Institut Culturel Italien in Paris, Modern Art Gallery in Catania, Macro Museum in Rome, Museo Madre and the Museum of Villa Pignatelli in Naples.
Some of her works are present in public and private art collections such as Imago Mundi Art, Fondo Malerba Archive for Photography, Mediterraneum Collection, Vallicelliana Library in Rome.
She have exhibited in international photographic festivals including the Photolux Festival in Lucca and the Photaumnales in France. She has won several awards and received numerous awards, including a finalist work in the tenth edition of the Francesco Fabbri Prize for contemporary arts.