Carla Sutera Sardo
Stunning Colors Digital Photography
This digital photography artwork captures playful surrender, vulnerability, and surreal beauty as a figure floats amidst soft, ethereal white balloons
Artwork Description
| Artist: Carla Sutera Sardo |
| Title: Stunning Colors |
| Edition: Part of a limited edition set of 10 |
| Medium: Giclée print on Permajet Portfolio Rag 220g fine art paper |
| Size: 60 x 60 cm |
| Year: 2022 |
| COA: Certificate of Authenticity Included |
| Shipping: Free delivery in UAE within 7 business days |
about this Digital Photography
This digital photography artwork transforms a simple car into a surreal, ethereal landscape filled with soft, floating white balloons. A lone figure’s legs emerge from the cloud-like mass, suggesting both surrender and playful abandon, caught between restraint and liberation.
The contrast between the pale balloons and her bare legs evokes vulnerability, intimacy, and the delicate balance of control and freedom. The image invites viewers to pause, imagining the tactile sensation of soft forms surrounding the body, blurring boundaries between reality and dream.
Through careful composition, the photograph celebrates whimsy, fleeting joy, and the suspended moment where human presence meets abstract, airy softness. The work becomes a poetic meditation on vulnerability, sensuality, and the surreal pleasure of being enveloped by a fragile, weightless world.
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.