Arles 2025 : Chiara Indelicato, Pelle di lava

Anne Clergue Galerie presents Pelle di lava, an exhibition by photographer Chiara Indelicato. This series is dedicated to the island of Stromboli, a volcanic and intimate land that deeply shapes the artist’s approach.

Born in 1987 in Italy, Chiara Indelicato lives and works between Stromboli and France. After an initial career in fashion and branding, she has been fully dedicated to photography since 2019. She works with analog photography and develops her images using an experimental and ecological process that combines seawater and coffee, sometimes adding vitamin C. This process creates images with organic textures, imbued with the very matter of the places she explores.

Pelle di lava brings together a selection of photographs taken in Stromboli, revealing a dialogue between matter, memory, and landscape. This slow, artisanal work questions the fragility of territories, the invisible presence of buried stories, and the ways in which nature leaves its imprint on our lives.

The exhibition will also include objects collected on the island, such as pieces of lava, inte- grated into the installation to introduce a tactile and sensory dimension, and to deepen the relationship between the work, the territory, and the body.

A committed artist, Chiara Indelicato advocates for legal recognition of the Stromboli vol- cano and the preservation of its ecosystem. Her artistic approach is nourished by her deep connections with the environment, landscape, and memory.

Author of both the texts and images, Chiara published Pelle di Lava with Palais Books in 2024. She offers a reflection on the climate emergency, advocating for an animistic relation- ship with nature and the right to defend this living and fragile land, of which the volcano be- comes the spokesperson. Created from algae and leather waste, the paper used is a product of renewable energy. In 2025, a second edition was released. A sensitive work where poetry reigns over this volcanic environment!