Barbara Tavella (1972, La Val, Italy) is an Italian artist living and working in the mountains of Val Badia, Dolomites. In her works, she addresses subjects such as sensuality and seduction, nostalgia and autonomy, primordial force and vulnerability. The painted bodies are set in an undefined landscape of colour and merge with surrounding nature like an iridescent aura. Her characters, seen as hybrid, mystical creatures, defend their own sexuality actively and autonomously, and possess the wild sensuality of their bodies beyond all fantasy and stereotypical representation.

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