works

  • Spazio b5, Bologna, May-June, 2026

  • BoA Spazio Arte, Bologna, May - April 2026

  • Fotografia contemporanea a Palazzo degli Strazzaroli, Art City 2026

  • BoA Spazio Arte, Bologna, 2025

  • Crypt of San Zama, Bologna, 2025

  • BoA Spazio Arte, Bologna, 2024

  • Il Punto Gallery, Bologna, 2023

Eco delle piccole distanze

Negroni presents a selection of works to explores the resonance that certain moments leave behind. Film photography introduces a small temporal gap between the act of shooting and the moment of seeing—an exercise in waiting and in accepting limits. By renouncing the immediate control of digital tools and working with an analog camera, the artist embraces a form of temporary blindness that transforms photography from an act of possession into one of offering.

Once extracted from reality, the image is left to settle in the darkness of the film roll, resurfacing only when the emotion of the moment has already become memory. The photograph thus becomes an infinitesimal measure of return.

The image ceases to be a record of life and becomes instead a voluntary memory, where time is no longer linear but echoes through recollection. The project emerged from the accidental dialogue between two rolls shot in April, one year apart: warm, saturated Sicily meets a grey, suspended Venice. Through the juxtaposition of matter and emptiness, the images transform chronicle into memory, revealing a coherence beyond the artist’s initial intention.

The exhibition is open to visitors from March 14 to April 11, with the opening on March 13, 2026

Bologna Immaginata.

Fotografia contemporanea a Palazzo degli Strazzaroli

For the first time, the ancient doors of Palazzo degli Strazzaroli open to the public, welcoming visitors to the piano nobile for a photographic exhibition that brings past and present into dialogue.

Carolina Negroni explores Bologna at night through three analog photographic shots, taken handheld on Cinestill 800 film. Her work investigates places and buildings that, after dark, shed their everyday function and become silent presences—spaces we walk past without fully noticing. These presences are narrated through movement, light, and color.

The photographic works are accompanied by an audiovisual projection, in which Carolina overlays video recordings made in the same locations as the photographs. The footage is blurred, saturated, and layered, incorporating textures and visual traces of the surrounding environment to recreate a sense of chaos. This chaos—often perceived as something negative or uncontrollable—is here reinterpreted.

For this reason, the visual work is paired with a sound element: the sound of the Earth recorded from space. A soothing, expansive sound that helps to calm and rebalance the experience, offering a peaceful dimension to chaos itself.

Wunderkammer

The Wunderkammer emerges as a space of relationships, where the eye is led by surprise and wonder. Here, the works generate constellations: each piece preserves its own autonomy, yet contributes to a broader structure, embodying the plurality of perspectives that animate the space.

The works presented by Carolina Negroni belong to a black-and-white still-life series shot on 135mm analog film. This body of work focuses on objects typically associated with conviviality—elements commonly found on a shared table, symbolic of togetherness and collective experience. Extracted from their usual context and brought into the foreground, they become protagonists of a still life: static subjects which, paradoxically, evoke the dynamism and warmth of a communal moment.

Due capsule di pillola su una superficie liscia in bianco e nero.
  • Una scatola rossa con uova rotte su una superficie.
  • Due capsule di pillola su una superficie piatta.

LIFE

LIFE is a visual journey that explores the cycle of existence through a gentle and intimate gaze. The project unfolds as a quiet reflection on the ordinary, where small gestures and simple actions become meaningful traces of our presence in the world. These photographs do not seek grand narratives or exceptional moments; instead, they linger on the everyday — morning rituals, the light filtering through a window, the warmth of domestic spaces, the subtle poetry of what happens softly, without clamour.

Each image captures a fragment of life suspended in time, allowing the viewer to rediscover the beauty hidden in routine. Shadows, textures, objects, and human presences become storytellers, revealing emotions
that lie beneath the surface of habit. In this delicate stillness, the ordinary transforms into something universal: we recognise ourselves in these scenes, in a gesture, in a detail, in something familiar that we had forgotten.

LIFE invites us to slow down, to pay attention, to look more closely. It reminds us that beauty often resides in what is quiet and unassuming, in moments that slip by unnoticed. This body of work becomes a meditation on presence and absence, on what remains and what fades, celebrating the essential simplicity that holds our lives together.

Auto taxi gialla parcheggiata davanti a un edificio con pareti rosse e gialle, una persona seduta sulla parte superiore e una donna che cammina davanti
  • Silhouette di due persone sulla scale mobile in un edificio moderno con soffitto illuminato da cerchi di luce.
  • Un barbiere sta tagliando i capelli a un cliente all'interno di un negozio di barbiere chiamato 'Peluquería Tocayos'. L'insegna del negozio mostra varie immagini di uomini con diversi tagli di capelli.
  • Due persone sedute su una roccia, indossano cappelli di paglia e abiti tradizionali, all'aperto vicino a una capanna in legno con tetto di tegole, tra alberi, in un ambiente rurale
  • Una donna indossa un sari colorato mentre lavora i tessuti su un terrazzo di un edificio storico in India, con un muro di mattoni e strutture architettoniche in stile tradizionale.
  • Strada stretta in un mercato con bancarelle di tessuti e abbigliamento colorato, uomo in bicicletta e uomo seduto sui gradini che guarda il cellulare.
  • Spiaggia con persone che passeggiano vicino al mare con onde e pietre.
  • Un uomo seduto davanti a una bancarella di cocchi in un mercato, con cocchi impilati e appesi sopra. Sullo sfondo, un poster con una persona che beve una bevanda.
  • Passeggiata sotto un portico con pareti gialle e graffiti, con tavoli e sedie di legno lungo il percorso, persone che camminano, uno indossa un cappotto beige e un cappello, altri con uno zaino.
  • Una donna anziana con un bastone e una sedia a rotelle cammina in una piazza affascinante, circondata da volatili che volano nel cielo, in un ambiente urbano con edifici vecchi e balconi.
  • Silhouette di persone e monumenti, tra cui un grande edificio con una cupola e una torre, visibili attraverso una fitta nebbia.

EYE

EYE originates from a technical accident: where there should have been only darkness, light unexpectedly intervened. Although the film roll had been compromised, the darkroom development process brought back — or rather, brought to light — a series of stolen frames from Carolina Negroni’s stay in Budapest. What was destined to remain invisible resurfaced instead, as if the material itself was unwilling to disappear.

It seemed almost as though the roll already sensed her devotion to the nebulous and atmospheric. The incident bestowed upon the film a veil of opacity, a tangible haze that aligns with the aesthetic the artist instinctively seeks in her work. What emerged was not flaw, but texture — an unforeseen gift that revealed a language she often pursues unconsciously, image after image.

EYE stands as an ode to chance, to the unpredictable nature of analog photography, where error becomes revelation. The project invites the viewer to look beyond clarity, to welcome uncertainty and its poetic distortions, and to discover how light, even when uninvited, can transform absence into presence.

Architettura antica con colonne ornate e balcone, con palloni aerostatici nel cielo notturno.
  • Una strada urbana con edifici alti, persone che camminano sul marciapiede e auto parcheggiate lungo la strada.
  • Cinque panchine di metallo senza persone, che proiettano ombre lunghe sul marciapiede, vicino a una recinzione di ferro in un'area all'aperto al crepuscolo.
  • Una persona si appoggia a un cancello bianco lungo la strada, con alberi e veicoli in lontananza.
  • Scena cittadina in bianco e nero con un albero, biciclette in primo piano, persone che passeggiano, e un architettura con torri e ponti sullo sfondo.
  • Un giovane skateboarder che esegue una manovra su una pista di skateboard in una città, con auto e autobus in background e edifici storici.
  • Segnale con la scritta 'OPERA' sopra un muro con mattonelle bianche e una panchina in basso.
  • Immagine di edifici storici e moderni con un palo per la segnaletica o l'illuminazione al centro, in bianco e nero.
  • Persone che si bagnano in una fontana in un'area urbana.
  • Interno di una stazione ferroviaria con persone che aspettano, pareti rivestite di piastrelle bianche, un tavolo e un canestro da basket sullo sfondo.
  • Una persona con un cane in un sottopassaggio, in controluce, con la luce che proviene dall'uscita.

Le forme si aprono tra chiusura e chiusura

"Le forme si aprono tra chiusura e chiusura" is an audio-visual project by Carolina Negroni, inspired by the homonymous work by Vincenzo Agnetti (1971).


The project offers a multi-sensory immersion that guides the viewer through the creation process of an artwork. Its core lies in the presence of the object/subject that has always been responsible for making: the hand.

The hand produces sound, manipulates materials, holds brushes, sharpens or softens shapes, and inevitably generates closures between lines.
This work aims to place the creative process and the final piece on an equal level of importance.

Pennello di vernice che sta dipingendo una linea bianca su una superficie nera.
Le mani di una persona con alcune anelli sul dito, con il palmo rivolto verso l'alto, si trovano sopra una superficie scura
Una persona dipinge con acquerelli su carta, con vari contenitori di colori e pennelli sul tavolo decorato con fiori.