works

  • BoA Spazio Arte, Bologna, 2025

  • Crypt of San Zama, Bologna, 2025

  • BoA Spazio Arte, Bologna, 2024

  • Il Punto Gallery, Bologna, 2023

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.

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

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.

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.