Chiara Fantaccione on Landscape as Collective Reflection

Chiara Fantaccione (b. 1991, Terni) is an Italian artist based in Rome. She earned a degree in Visual Arts from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Perugia and specialized at RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts. Since 2017, she has been an active member of Spazio In Situ, an artist-run space in Rome. Her exhibitions include "Sunset Boulevard" at Curva Pura in Rome, curated by Nicoletta Provenzano; "Fotoelettrico" at Ma Project in Perugia, curated by Davide Silvioli; and "Solar Dogs" at Spazio In Situ, curated by Caterina Salimbeni. Fantaccione works across installation, video, and photography, focusing on the use of images and their superimposition onto reality, particularly through landscape. She describes landscape as a collective reflection shaped by cultural processes, not a natural given. Her practice explores the artificiality of landscape, drawing on Georg Simmel's philosophy. She investigates how visual culture, photography, and digital devices mediate perception. Fantaccione's series "Before the visible lights" uses infrared photography to create altered, fairy-tale landscapes without digital postproduction. Her recent CGI video "The world I know" features a drone narrator questioning the nature of reality and representation, inspired by Schopenhauer's "The World as Will and Representation." She engages with post-photography and the automated production of images, questioning human presence in the creative process.