GAIALIGHT - New York City
Photography
Gaialight, was born in Rome, Italy, to a mother from New York and a Sicilian father. She has been engaged exclusively in artistic activities since 2004, choosing the adopted name of Gaialight (Gaia Light for her Photography).
Her educational experience is rich and original: on the one hand, classical studies and a Degree in Law (La Sapienza University of Rome) with a challenging thesis on the conditions of prisons in Italy; on the other, an artistic aptitude that revealed itself precociously.
Her trips to India, throughout Europe and the United States, and to Israel oriented her towards the experimentation of different techniques. The result was the maturation of an expressive language marked by contamination and the overcoming of types and movements which combines post-pop and conceptual, media icons and current events.
Her current work, presented mainly through photography-based series, focuses on contemporary society, questioning its relationship with technology, media, beauty, body image, religion, youth culture, gender identity and sexuality. A conceptually and critically based approach to the image as cultural artifact, this work utilizes photography, video, installation, and performance.
She lives and works in New York.
“Brooklyn Buzz” (the body of work portrayed in the video) is also a very special photo book (by myself and co-author Alessandro Cosmelli) that was recently chosen by POYi as one of the Best 9 Photography Books of 2012
Poyi.org/70/42/finalist_01.php