Maria Chiara Piglione

Maria Chiara explores memory, emotion, and symbolic storytelling through photography, digital media, and artificial intelligence. Situated between reality and imagination, her images create spaces where personal experiences transform into universal narratives.

Her practice is driven by a fascination with the invisible layers of human experience: the emotions, memories, and inner landscapes that shape how we perceive ourselves and the world around us. Drawing inspiration from childhood, dreams, nature, and archetypal imagery, she constructs visual worlds that feel both intimate and timeless.

Rather than approaching memory as nostalgia for a lost past, her work reflects an interest in preserving a particular way of seeing — the sense of wonder, curiosity, and emotional openness that often fades beneath the structures of adult life. Through carefully crafted compositions, she invites viewers to reconnect with that deeper sensitivity and to engage with the symbolic language hidden within everyday experience.

Blending photographic observation with contemporary digital processes, her work moves between the tangible and the imagined, creating images that are at once contemplative, evocative, and emotionally resonant.

Her artistic rese...

Self-taught visual artist active since 2019.

Academic background and PhD in Chemical Engineering.

Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions

2025 – Giardini Segreti, Palazzo D'Oria, Ciriè, Italy

2024 – Di Fiaba, di Sogno e di Cucina, San Maurizio Canavese, Italy

2024 – La Scatola dei Sogni, Lastra Gallery, Alba, Italy

2023 – Il Sogno e la Materia, Labbò, San Maurizio Canavese, Italy

2023 – Curiosities, Galleria Maria Baglio, Turin, Italy

2022 – La Scatola dei Sogni, Ronchiverdi, Turin, Italy

2020 – The Other Side, Marvin, Turin, Italy

2020 – Beyond Alice's Mirror, Spazio Eventa, Turin, Italy

2019 – (Im)possibilities, Galleria d'Arte Picta, Ciriè, Italy

2019 – Universi Paralleli, Ciriè, Italy


Group Exhibitions

2025 – Art Week Volterra, Volterra, Italy

2023 – Paratissima Unpredictable, Turin, Italy

2019 – Paratissima Multiversity, Turin, Italy