Marina Visvi @ Rome Art Week

Marina Visvi

It was a short step from psychologist to photographer. After graduating I attended ISCFI, entering the artistic and cultural fabric where I was able to grow as an artist and alongside important figures on the contemporary scene.

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Marina Visvi was born in Rome on 10 August 1965. Graduated in Psychology at the "La Sapienza" University, she has always been concerned with understanding the importance of images in man's life. A lover of Jung's Analytical psychology, he has always felt that Symbols emerge and come to life from the unconscious not only through dreams but also in art. Communicating through images is therefore a way to give substance to one's fantasies through a creative and spontaneous act aimed at acting as a bridge between internal and external, I-Not I, Me and the other. The choice to combine his two passions arises precisely from this philosophy and from the desire to communicate to the outside world one's experiences and one's way of relating to what surrounds us. The aphorisms that belong to her are:

1) Photography is not like painting. There is a creative fraction of a second when taking a photo. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself proposes, and it must be able to immediately understand when you click the camera. That's when the photographer is creative. Oop! The moment! Once you notice it, it's gone forever. (Henry Cartier-Bresson)

2) "The creation of something new is not achieved with the intellect but with the instinct of play that arises from internal needs. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves" (Carl Gustav Jung)