Title: Rosa Canina
Artist: Mathilda Olmi
Editions FP&CF
18 x 26 cm
92 pages
Hot-stamped glossy black cover
Design by Claire Schvartz
Texts by Julia Widmann & Myriam Olmi
2022
ISBN: 979-10-91366-39-7
In this second book published by Éditions FP&CF, the Swiss photographer Mathilda Olmi reconciles militant commitment and plastic work. A committed feminist, involved for several years in social struggles, the photographer has asked people around her to confide in their relationship to their own body.
Far beyond the dominant clichés conveyed by the specialized press or cosmetics brands, the models, exclusively female, pose naked, unvarnished, with their scars, their experience and show a more universal approach to female bodies. Behind the closed doors of a living room, the models reveal what they wish to show, to exhibit. Natural light reveals the details and particularities of each. Sometimes with modesty, sometimes more assumed, the bodies are revealed, and implicitly the individuals who inhabit them. Far from posing with artificial sensuality, Mathilda Olmi has been able to capture the very essence of each person through postures, gestures, almost an improvised dance in front of the lens.
– From the publisher’s website
In this second book published by Éditions FP&CF, the Swiss photographer Mathilda Olmi reconciles militant commitment and plastic work. A committed feminist, involved for several years in social struggles, the photographer has asked people around her to confide in their relationship to their own body.
Far beyond the dominant clichés conveyed by the specialized press or cosmetics brands, the models, exclusively female, pose naked, unvarnished, with their scars, their experience and show a more universal approach to female bodies. Behind the closed doors of a living room, the models reveal what they wish to show, to exhibit. Natural light reveals the details and particularities of each. Sometimes with modesty, sometimes more assumed, the bodies are revealed, and implicitly the individuals who inhabit them. Far from posing with artificial sensuality, Mathilda Olmi has been able to capture the very essence of each person through postures, gestures, almost an improvised dance in front of the lens.
– From the publisher’s website
