Chiara Gabellini is a New York-based photographer and videographer depicting the devastating yet beautiful confluence of innocence and destruction around her, often drawing inspiration from advertising and found media. Gabellini looks to capture raw emotion in her subjects hoping to document microscopic moments of intimacy that sporadically make themselves known.
Gabellini began taking photographs using a Nikon film camera at a young age and continues to think of her photographs relationally, often exhibiting them in immersive installations in which she combines appropriated media images with her own prints to create dense, chromatic collages.
Gabellini’s first solo exhibition, Dumb Kid, organized in collaboration with CCProjects, was exhibited at the Rice Hotel in Miami in December 2019. She has since exhibited in group shows organized by Google for two seasons of their Creator Labs project. The artist has collaborated with brands including Converse, Slam Jam and Noah, alongside editorial commissions for Homme Girls featuring Sasha Lane and Bottega Veneta, The Face featuring Emily Lind and Miu Miu, and Document Journal featuring Porches.
