Veronica Mecchia
France / Italy lives and works in Paris
Italian photographer, born in Paris, Veronica Mecchia grew up in Milan where she obtained a Master's degree in Art History and simultaneously trained in photography under Giuliana Traverso at the "Il Diaframma" Gallery in Milan.
She returned to Paris in 2003 to continue her Art History studies at La Sorbonne, subsequently dedicating herself exclusively to photography.
She was inspired by photographer Arno Rafael Minkkinen, with whom she had the opportunity to work in Italy from 1997 to 1998. Veronica Mecchia considers him her master, feeling a deep connection to his quest for communion with nature.
The relationship between the human being and their environment is central to her work.
She chooses Black and White and the analog process (the waiting time between the shot and the moment she sees the developed image is important; it is part of her creative process), self-portrait, and nudity: she experiences the creation of her photographs as a meditation and a return to the roots.
Veronica Mecchia is attuned to the impermanence of things, the embodiment in the Here and Now, or the famous "Poetically Man Dwells" by the German Romantic philosopher and poet Hölderlin.
Her photographs and artist books have been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions and are part of private collections in Italy, France, Belgium, Germany, Greece, the United States, Switzerland, Colombia, Taiwan, and Japan.
Her artist book “Fotografie” (Paris, May 2016) and two of her photographs were included in the "anti-Aufklärung 2019" collection and were acquired by the Kandinsky Library at the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris).
Her works
Lidwine Rupp Gallery
Nomad gallery
sur RDV en dehors des dates d’expositions temporaires
La (Ré)édition – 80 avenue de la Marne – 92120 Montrouge, France