Maria Siorba

You Can’t Stand Outside Looking In | In this series we are gazing at a staged world where femininity is prominent and disarming in its tireless commitment to detail. A space is born, brought in and shared by young women, made up of their elegant and discreet complicity. Here, the encounter with the outer world is constantly postponed, replaced by a safeguarded area which is established indoors. This domestic boundary creates in its turn a love for attentiveness and direction praising the analog way of thinking. Ballrooms, cutlery and billowing skirts, secret flings, wallpapers and windows left half-open, sleepovers and journals are all part of this distinctive universe where the past has been embedded portraying a sentient emotional world.

The girls, who are having a getaway from everything, seem to be focusing on an endless process of contemplation and discovery; as if they are envisioning their own dream operation to change the world.

Just like them, while working on this project, at a safe distance from reality, I enjoyed escaping also from the sense of time, turning it into something beyond the principle of

measuring. This allowed those much needed feelings of safety and freedom to emerge and lead the way of the creative process. www.mariasiorba.com