Carla Sutera Sardo
Grape Girl Digital Photography
This digital photography artwork merges the female form with grape-like clusters, symbolizing abundance, concealment, and quiet transformation
Artwork Description
| Artist: Carla Sutera Sardo |
| Title: Grape Girl |
| Edition: Part of a limited edition set of 10 |
| Medium: Giclée print on Permajet Portfolio Rag 220g fine art paper |
| Size: 50 x 75 cm |
| Year: 2025 |
| COA: Certificate of Authenticity Included |
| Shipping: Free delivery in UAE within 7 business days |
about this Digital Photography
"Grape Girl" features a woman whose upper body is enveloped by cascading grape-like shapes, leaving only her legs visible. This surreal composition explores concealment and emergence, as organic forms blur boundaries between human presence and nature’s abundance. The grapes suggest fertility, transformation, and introspection, turning the figure into both part of and apart from the lush veil.
Through delicate visual metaphor, Sutera Sardo invites viewers to reflect on identity beneath layers. We shield parts of ourselves while revealing others. The artwork balances ambiguity and intimacy, encouraging contemplation of what lies beneath the external facade. Natural motifs articulate inner states of being, merging symbolism with personal presence.
about the artist
Carla Sutera Sardo (b. 1983, Agrigento) is an Italian photographer exploring the relationship between women and natural landscapes. She began her practice during university studies in Palermo and Rome, teaching herself through self-portraiture.
Her staged compositions balance intimacy and strength, inviting viewers into quiet, surreal moments that evoke transformation and emotional depth.
Early works focused on Sicily’s unspoiled terrain, revealing her poetic, dreamlike visual language. Her imagery suspends time, blending intimacy, femininity, and place with quiet strength.
Sutera Sardo’s photographs have appeared in L’Œil de la Photographie, Vogue Italia, and won recognition from the Sony World Photography Awards and Siena Photography Awards. She has also received the Prix de la Photographie.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in London, Paris, Florence, Turin, Palermo, Zhengzhou, Gibellina, and Slovenia. Notably, she contributed to Nomad Art Collective’s inaugural exhibitions Il Bivio: Fragmented Feminine and Il Bivio II: Sicily in Confluence.
View her Dubai collection of available artworks here
copyright
This digital photography artwork is one of a kind original therefore, all copyrights and reproduction rights are reserved by the artist.