My approach
I create photographs that exist between reality and imagination.
I am Capucine Frecciani, a visual artist and photographer. My work explores coexistence, when a single photograph is no longer enough to tell a story.
Working primarily with double exposure in post-production, I bring together fragments of different places, cultures, landscapes, architecture and human moments to create images that reveal several realities at once.
I want us to start feeling things again, deeply, intimately, without fear. I want my work to call for imagination, for dreaming. This layering of realities is like the inside of my head: memories, the present, aspirations, everything overlapping in harmony, through the spectrum of my thoughts, of who I am. This is me.
The founding image
The beginning of this journey can be traced back to a photograph I took almost unknowingly in Hanoi, Vietnam. At the entrance of Ngọc Sơn Temple, on Hoàn Kiếm Lake, I photographed a woman sitting behind a ticket booth, separated from the tourists by a pane of glass. In the reflection, a man wearing a Jude Bellingham football shirt appeared within the scene.
I didn't know it at the time, but this image would become the premise of my entire practice. It brought together, within a single frame, two worlds I had never consciously sought to combine: tradition and modernity, rootedness and movement, the local and the global.
This photograph made me question what an image could truly reveal. I began to wonder whether photography could go beyond capturing a single moment. How could photography bring several realities into coexistence? How could it reveal something greater, something deeper? Something infinitely more complete, more detailed than each of these images taken on its own.
That question became the foundation of my practice.
Experimentation
My work is deeply driven by experimentation. I photograph intuitively, collect fragments from different journeys and moments, and later allow them to meet in unexpected ways. Some associations are deliberate; others emerge through chance, trial and instinct.
The result is not intended to be understood immediately. What interests me is the moment when recognition gives way to imagination — when you look at an image and begin to discover another place, another memory, another story within it.
Inspiration
Inspiration. A grand concept that seems rather abstract to me. Inspiration is not an end in itself. I think it comes from accepting that it does not exist as the trigger of creation, but rather as a state during it. Deep down, for me, inspiration does not exist in the way we expect it to.
The creative act is setting oneself in motion, for oneself, as oneself, without judgement. The fruit of inspired work is the art we do not understand but feel, the art we identify with without quite knowing why. So can we say that inspiration comes from within? Through accepting the creative impulse, rather than at the end of a long and painful deliberation.
Two photographs become one. And somewhere between them, a third story appears.
My series explore this space between what we have seen, what we remember and what we imagine.