Intimate portraits of women, nude in their bedrooms
Larissa, London
Photographer Maria Clara Macrì was born in Reggio Emilia in 1987. During her adolescence she began to take an interest in political and social issues with particular attention to gender issues. She lived in Bologna after high school where she graduated in Contemporary World Histroy in 2010 and continues her personal research on the historical and visual representation of the female gender and its associated limits.
Maria Clara Macrì travelled across the world to capture women at ease and in their safe spaces. "I don't have a sister, maybe that's why I look for her in every woman," says Maria Clara Macrì in the pages of her book 13 Moons to Find Her, which should be published soon. This quest for sorority was carried out through a series of portraits (a project originally called In Her Rooms) for which the Italian photographer met dozens of women around the world. In the excitement of big cities like Barcelona, Paris, New York, London and Milan, unknown women invited the artist to immortalize them in the intimacy conferred by their room and their nudity. By dropping the clothes, Maria Clara Macrì leaves stereotypes on the doorstep, keeping only the beauty and energy of the female bodies.
“Your room is a space of freedom where you can create, write, and read while remaining in touch with your own body and energy”
