
TAMARA QUADRELLI
My photographic work emerges from an intimate dialogue with the ordinary architecture of the Italian landscape. I am not interested in celebrated monuments or tourist icons, but rather in those fragments of the built environment that we inhabit daily without truly seeing: a pastel-colored facade dialoguing with the sky, the geometric shadow of a shutter, the corner of a building that becomes pure chromatic abstraction.
My research focuses on visual synthesis, on the elimination of everything superfluous to reveal the poetic essence of vernacular architecture. Each image is a work of subtraction: I isolate, I simplify, I transform the banal into the extraordinary through the calibrated use of color, light, and geometric composition. My chromatic palettes — powder pink, dusty blue, Mediterranean ochre, sage green — are never casual, but the result of patient research and waiting for the right light.
What fascinates me is the capacity of minor architecture to tell stories without words, to be a mirror of a cultural identity that manifests itself in details: in the way a community chooses its colors, in the proportions of windows, in the texture of weathered plaster. My photographic approach is contemplative, almost meditative: I seek those moments of grace in which form, color, and light merge into perfect harmony.













