My portraits are born to transmute pain into memory and absence into presence.

Creating is my way of responding to the void: an act of love toward all that is inevitably destined to vanish.

I rely on a formal harmony that makes pain bearable, allowing the viewer to hold its weight without looking away.

My works originate from digital photography and generative software and are transformed, through the physico-chemical process of cyanotype, into faces embodied in matter. Prussian Blue, the signature color of this technique, embraces absence rather than instilling fear: it allows one to observe disappearance through a lens of dignity and beauty, making the wound of absence bearable without diminishing its gravity.

I do not regard absence as something to document, nor as an empty space, but as a special, intimate, and fragile place that calls me to become its guardian.

My task is to hold on to what is destined to fade.

By exploring the vulnerability of human life, my faces offer those who remain the possibility to caress with their eyes the sweetness of presence, ultimately making the pain of absence bearable.

Sara Campi is the keeper of absence: through her cyanotype portraits, she explores the vulnerability of existence and transforms the pain of loss into a sustainable harmony, inviting the viewer to bear its weight without looking away.

Her artistic research is born as a response to a profound loss, a pain that transforms into the need to remember and hold on. She begins to create so that absence does not turn into silence; through her art, she inhabits her blue world, where absence becomes trace and trace becomes encounter.

Sara Campi

Keeper of Absence

A graduate of the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti in Turin, she lived for several years in London, where contact with a multicultural reality deeply enriched her artistic and personal journey.and Art3f in Paris

Over the course of her career, she has participated in art fairs including Arte Padova and Art3f in Paris