Authorae

Alessandro Balzaretti (Milan, 1999) holds a degree in Economics from the University of Bologna and a degree in Psychology from the University of Parma. His articles, poems and research have appeared in *Altrove*, *Capitalism Nature Socialism*, *Ecozon@ – European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment* and *Rivista di Psicologia Clinica*.
He contributed to the exhibition “Poetica dell’oggetto” by the artist Simone Ricciardiello in Vicenza and to the book “Dalle finestre di questa casa”, published by Interlinea Edizioni in memory of the Novara-born writer Sebastiano Vassalli. He is also the author of “Le parole toccano i bordi delle foglie”, a collection of poems published by Fallone Editore.

Psychologist, performer, photographer and anti-model. Born a warrior and free. She becomes a Goddess of Truth in her second life. Photography was a “calling”, as Gio loves to define the passage from a sort of state of coma to a rebirth and awareness through her first self-portraits. She first came into contact with digital photography (2015) and then with analog. After several workshops with Enrico De Luigi, Toni Thorimbert, Jacopo Benassi, (with whom she created her first performance), Settimio Benedusi and Efrem Raimondi, she begins shooting at night between bathrooms and raves, arriving at nudity as a language of truth.
Her performances begin and through the Blindsession, inspired by her blind mother, she understands that the camera is only a means and that it is through the exchange of energy, heart and skin that transformation can be created. Curator for several years of the artistic project WildRomagna, which has created photographic, artistic and relational encounters through various photographic calls, laboratories and workshops.

Giulia Di Palmo (2000), a pianist from Salento who graduated with top honours from the Arrigo Boito Conservatoire in Parma, combines a busy concert schedule – performing both chamber music and as a soloist – with in-depth multidisciplinary research centred on the synaesthetic dialogue between the arts.
Her career combines a rigorous classical training and collaboration with prestigious maestros and ensembles with an eclectic exploration of expression.
Attentive to the connections between visual imagery and sound, she recently staged her solo exhibition ‘Disegni e Disuoni’ in Turin, an artistic and conceptual project in which she explores and interweaves musical syntax with the language of illustration and the visual arts, giving shape to a unified sensory experience.
Dedicated to chamber music, she is the resident pianist of the Trio Leónand is actively involved in teaching music and the piano, collaborating with various academic and cultural institutions.

A psychotherapist and PhD in psychology, born in 1990, Maria Filosa experiences photography from both sides of the lens: as a photographer and as the subject of artistic portraits.
In her photographic world, she seeks sensitivity, instinct, and transparency, driven by the need to recount what her eyes encounter. Her images aim to bear witness to what is often judged, hidden, or rejected, in an attempt to restore its reality and dignity.
For Maria, every human being, landscape, or detail holds a universe of stories waiting to emerge. Photography thus becomes a way of traversing the visible to get closer to what, silently or loudly, demands to be seen.
[The portrait of Maria Filosa is by Marco Malavolti.]

Libera Mariotti is born as an anarchic force to occupy cultural space in a contemporaneity that is chaotic yet simulatively ordered. She works in her studio as a photographer.
She works on her interiority as an artist. She works on her spirit as a masca.
Endowed with exceptionally high cognitive abilities, she distills in her catharses works that go beyond personal experience to become a living and striking testimony of intersubjectively relevant and emotionally affecting events.

A photographer specialized in black and white, she has collaborated with film agencies shooting on sets and behind the scenes, contemporary art galleries for installations and openings, and advertising agencies.
Since November 2018 she has been photographing Milan’s clubbing scene at selected events.
She favors techno, kinky, queer and punk nightlife, worlds that remain underground, however exposed, and in constant contrast with a system that stigmatizes and represses everything that is not overtly aligned with the standardized, singular way of being and feeling human.
A kind of nocturnal chronicle, through portraits, candid situations, still life, a body of work that goes under the name ELEVEN PM FIVE AM.

Actor and sommelier, ultra and poet, Emiliano Mondini was born in 1994 in Milan, a city both hated and loved. It was 2006 when Poetry approached him under the guise of a car radio. Thus Radio Autostrada del Sole, a central manifesto of the educational power of parent 1, broadcast Amico Fragile...
Since then, he has been gripped by the need to bear witness to himself. Within the frames of a pinball machine his poetics bounce between mannerism and metaphysics, between hedonism and masochism, between the sommelier and the ultra(s). He sniffs the foul-smelling theater of performance, manipulates himself in action, surrenders his eyes to the shadow of poetry. The poetry of coherence and contradiction.

Attilio Solzi works with photographs, videos, artist’s books and collages.
His approach to photography is conceptual, always drawing on social and everyday contexts, and seeking to explore the interpretation of reality and the contemporary world.
The main focus of his work is the image of the body and its representation.
He has exhibited in numerous galleries and foundations. His major solo exhibitions include: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, the Rome Quadriennale, Guido Costa Projects, Antonio Marras Gallery, Prometeo Gallery and Metronom.

Behind the publication named Spytt are three people: Stefano Essequadro, founder of the magazine in 2023, Ricardo Ramìrez, photographer based in Milan and founder of the zine Katartico, and InQuieto, an established photographer based between Ferrara and Grottaglie.
[In the photo (from left) InQuieto, Ricardo Ramìrez, Stefano Essequadro.]