The Collection
Between impulse and reflection
A decade of Marzia Gamba's still-life photography — each series, in the order she made it.
Series 01 · 2014
Reflection
Her beginnings in New York. Mirrors, symmetry and reflected fragments — skies, buildings, carousels — folded until the familiar turns strange.
Series 02 · 2017–2020
I Like Food Better Than People
Her signature. Food becomes a living protagonist; the everyday is made sensual, witty and a little surreal — a whole story found inside a grape, a glass, a flower.
Series 03 · 2019
Fruit & Flowers
Still lifes where fruit and flowers meet — abundance, colour and a painter's sense of arrangement.
Series 04 · 2020
Corona Glam
Made in lockdown — a playful, ironic look at the masks and rituals of the pandemic, kept light even as the world held its breath.
Series 05 · 2020
Still at Home
Quiet domestic still lifes from a world suddenly turned inward.
Series 06 · 2020
Renaissance
Eggs opening into bloom — a small, hopeful image of rebirth and transformation.
Series 07 · 2021
Jelly Boobs
A tender, humorous subversion of the “perfect” body, celebrating imperfection as its own kind of beauty.
Series 08 · 2023
Papavery
Poppies — fragile, luminous, alive.
