The choice of the apparent abstraction of the forms, the incessant search for movement in the spaces of the body captured close to their essence, reveal a quality of the real returned through an oneiric transmutation process.
Her first experiences are shared between Roman and Parisian influences. She approached art, architecture and cinema already at a very young age. In the years of her formative training, Claire Baldo sharpens the need to understand humanity, the value of the dream, what it means to evade intimately from the self.
The choice of the apparent abstraction of the forms, the incessant search for movement in the spaces of the body captured close to their essence, reveal a quality of the real returned through an oneiric transmutation process. As for an alchemist, time is always the key factor to this transmutation.
In Claire Clelia Baldo’s photographic practice, this process takes place through the patient construction of an alphabet made up of complex lines and shapes that have been meditated on and elaborated over a long period of time.
Claire Baldo sharpens the need to understand humanity, the value of the dream, what it means to evade intimately from the self, the desire for travelling that later lead her to sojourn in Africa and Asia.
The early development of compositional language fuelled by visions and insights to depict the reality trying to define her own sense of belonging that always slips away, to store and recall past experiences to recognize them as such, placing them in space and time and then incorporating them in the photographic image, they become signs of Claire Baldo’s urgency: to shape the meaning of her own identity, relying on the systematic but poetic use of the fragment.
The choice of the black and white, glazes and contrasts, the apparent abstraction of forms, the spaces of the female body caught in the vicinity of its essence that seem drawn in graphite or sketched in India ink, reveal a quality of the real returned through an oneiric transmutation process. As for an alchemist, time is always the key factor to this transmutation. The image that emerges from the subconscious is shaped thoroughly by the mind when the waiting is prolonged, allowing the artist to observe it in all its details and structure it scenically to finally give it to the world as a work of art.
In the photographic practice of Claire Baldo this process is carried out because of a patient construction of an alphabet made of lines and complex forms long meditated, where symbolist influences of painters and designerssuch as Odilon Redon, Windsor McCay, Heinrich Kley, but also of poets and film masters such as Jean Cocteau, Federico Fellini, Orson Welles and Peter Greenaway, transpire.
In 2016 she moved to Venice where she met the photographer Piero Viti with whom she founded LABOTIV.