Vittoria Signoretto Explores Maternal Relationship Through Orchid Photography in LABA-Sponsored Series

Photographer Vittoria Signoretto presents a personal project exploring her relationship with her mother through botanical imagery. The work centers on her mother's orchids, garden, and a cherished book of orchid photographs from childhood. Signoretto's photographic experiments create dialogue between her mother and the flowers, progressing to abstract images with light, evanescent tones. She contrasts her mother's behavior with the floral universe, portraying her as a woman with distinct characteristics beyond motherhood. The project appears within the series "Il teorema dell'anatra" (The Duck Theorem), a column examining photography's uncertain threshold between appearance and reality. This series questions how much our trained gaze accepts without closer examination. The column is promoted by LABA Libera Accademia di Belle Arti in Brescia. The work engages with photography's historical tension between technical objectivity and staged manipulation, referencing Joan Fontcuberta's duck analogy about trusting appearances. Signoretto's approach deconstructs automatic trust in photographic images while documenting intimate familial dynamics through floral symbolism.