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Elisa Fashion District
There are places where time sounds to have stopped, where relations, glances and human's life move beyond the lancets of the watch. The small hairdresser's shop in which Paola Fiorini composes this story, is a rare situation of temporal suspension. A perfect ecosystem where each move is undefinitely repeated, where each cigarette is appreciated as the first one.
A curtain on the windows protect this little world from external eyes. Nonetheless we're allowed to get into, through Paola's frames. Inside a perfect balance between kitsch estetics and true vintage insists: everything in the wright place in this poor disorder, stratifed by remebrance and filled by object from recent past. It's a fashionable place, condensed of humanity, of phrases not pronounced and stories not expressed because already known.There's no hurry in this place, no appointments after the "mise en plis", no kids to be driven to the swimming-pool, no golden haircuttings to be reflected in the mirrors. The small space of the shop does not allow for competition, but for willingness to relax, by warm hands head massages.
Elisa holds the hairbrush and scissors with proudness, challenging us with these swords, hence she hugs herself with her deformed bones, transformed as they are by a lifelong practice. Nonetheless a woman who still loves herself and her job.
The "salon" we're visiting could be located in any suburb of the world, anywhere somebody would get away from stressful life,take a shampoo, leaf through a journal and, why not, look at a small holy picture asking for a support. At Elisa's, as well as at Tiffany's, nothing bad can happen.The small space of the shop does not allow for competition, but for willingness to relax, by warm hands head massages.
Elisa holds the hairbrush and scissors with proudness, challenging us with these swords, hence she hugs herself with her deformed bones, transformed as they are by a lifelong practice. Nonetheless a woman who still loves herself and her job.
The "salon" we're visiting could be located in any suburb of the world, anywhere somebody would get away from stressful life, take a shampoo, leaf through a journal and, why not, look at a small holy picture asking for a support.
At Elisa's, as well as at Tiffany's, nothing bad can happen.
(Critical text of Valentina Mignano on magazine "GENTE DI FOTOGRAFIA" N°48)
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Biography
Paola Fiorini was born in Verona in 1975 where she currently lives and works.
Approached the photo by herself, preferring immediately using film cameras, where the field grows much of its research and stylistic experimentation. she prefers the medium format: Hasselblad and Holga (toycamera)
Training
2008 - Workshop: "Bodies and Movements" with Elizabeth Opalenik
2009 - Workshop with Stefano de Luigi agence VII / Network.
Awards
June 2009 1st prize "PORTFOLIO IN ROCCA San Felice sul Panaro, photo contest to reading portfolios.
December 2009 work "Elisa Fashion District is ranked first prize Portfolio Italy - Epson Grand Prix-Kiwanis.
Exhibitions and publications
2002009 - collective Granguardia palace at Verona.
AgostAugust 2009 Monthly cover story on the photographer.
2009 publication on the portfolio trimestale PEOPLE OF PHOTOGRAPHY.
2010 - "Portfolio 09", Italian Center of Photography copyright, Bibbiena (HR).
2010 - Collective Photo d'Autriche "by Cesare Colombo, in collaboration with Joan Calvenzi at Galerie Belvedere (MI) (www.belvedereonlus.it)
www.paolafiorini.it
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