Bontà Teresa Letizia | THE ROOMS I KEPT CLOSED
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My photographs are the result of pain. That note without sound. For a long time, he tried to give a melody to that tone. It is not easy to tell; it is not even easy to find who enters that part.” – Bontà Teresa Letizia
For me, photography represents light, that light so strong as to illuminate every dark part that lives within us. In these shots, I tell a phase of my life lived in intense mania, especially spiritually.
Many questions were asked; one of them was: how were these shots born? The moon never knocked at my house. It always came overwhelmingly through the shutters. Like strong emotions because sometimes, the same sentiment that breaks your heart is even the one that heals you.
I have always sought a privileged position to enjoy the spectacle of logic that crashes against emotion’s unpredictability. Yes, because they are precisely those emotions that arrive bursting to give life to the stage that we have inside.
I am tied to this project because it comes from the deep, it comes from those rooms where we often refuse to enter, it is born to shout, it was born to send a message, it was born to excite because at 37 years old, I discovered the emotion of being excited by a caress in the ‘soul.’
I found rooms that I kept closed, places where I did not enter, until I decided to give light to each of them slowly.
I love what I do; it is almost impossible for me to describe what I feel during walking with it, my emotions, and others; these shots are born from this deep place because, without emotions, time is only a ticking clock.
Bontà Teresa Letizia
Bontà Teresa Letizia © All rights reserved.
Bontà Teresa Letizia was born in Licata Agrigento (a city and commune located on the south coast of Sicily, regions of Italy) in 1981. She approached the world of photography as an autodidact. The first subject that stimulated her was certainly her environment and the artistic beauty of her country’s landscapes.
Among her favorite focus there is the strength and beauty of women, the surrounding reality. Her photography work can be described as simple, but attentive to detail. Photography projects that may tell what is and what has been. Exhibiting the ruth of mentality.
In 2017, which was a year full of success and developments, Teresa Letizia first exhibited her work in Licata and received international interest and exposure in photography publications. That year, she also participated in the Arte Venice Laguna Prize competition and featured her second exhibition at the Atelier association.
In 2018 she continued working on her unique projects in Sicily, in Palma di Montechiaro, where she kept breaking through the wall of taboos: The kiss between two women in front of the church has caused quite a stir by the audience and international newspapers.
The shots had a definite consensus of the well-known designer Stefano Gabbana, who commented positively on her unique project through Instagram. In May 2019, she ranked second at the “Michelangelo Vizzini” prize for women. Letizia’s ‘Sicily’ project was awarded the Special Jury Award for the shot that captures two women who kiss in the famous square of Palma DI Montechiaro. Other awards arrived in March 2020 from the D’E. M. Venice Art Gallery that rewards her art.
In 2020, Teresa began to exhibit her work in several international galleries; maintaining her roots, she experimented with new horizons, bringing current and committed themes in her photos. She plays with colors, with contrasts and the bodies’ lines. Describing and express everyday life through emotions.
