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“a painter with a camera” – David Taylor DESDEMONA VARON, is a multidisciplinary Italian artist. While fine art photography is her primary art form, she also performs, makes sculpture and latest her forms of expression also include drawings. Her art photography typically challenges beauty obsession and beauty conventions, yet at the same time, they display an intense passion for fashion. Desdemona has an eye for details. In charge of her art direction, she is into every single detail of her work : storyboard, set design, styling, hair and makeup. As she says; " this is the only way I come to feel part of the work." Her lights will bring you to the classic Italian paintings ...that’s why her first agent David Taylor called her “ A Painter with a camera “ Her passion for art, beauty and fashion have led her to work in the world's greatest capitals with the opportunity to collaborate with great Names and many Magazines. such as VOGUE ITALIA, VELVET D di REPUBBLICA, DIEGO DELLA PALMA, DEBENHAMS, TONI & GUY, HJ'S BRITISH HAIRDRESSING AWARDS ETC “Every single human being is a unique piece of art itself “ – Desdemona Varon While the beauty in her artwork will catch your eye, she seeks to engage you to see beyond the surface; ‘there is always a strong deeper meaning; like with her beauty obsession work, she sought to bring the audience to reflect on our culture’s beauty obsession, which she considers a cross to bear. She is trying to encourage people to increase their self-esteem, and she is speaking from profound personal experiences, as she in her teenage years suffered tragic consequences from a serious car accident, where she not only had to fight for her life but as she says ‘I had my beauty stolen and since I have had to fight for both beauty and self-esteem’. Her early works show the process of her extreme struggle to get her self back together again. Still today Desdemona takes inspiration from her personal struggle to re-embrace every single millimeter of herself, and as she expresses it ‘Still today there is a pain, but I have learned to “enjoy the silence”, however, I make sure it comes out in my work . ‘I have a desperate need to find beauty, whatever that means’ – Desdemona Varon LABIRINTINTINTIMI / INSIDE OF ME (1994 - 2011) is her first work, and it takes the audience on a journey through pain. encompassing three elements: - 17 years of photography “autoerotism” to “bleach “ the torment - 17 years of self-portraits ….