Karla Hiraldo Voleau

Frammenti

Frammenti is an ongoing project by Karla Hiraldo Voleau that explores the affective lives and relationships of Italian teenagers in their final years of high school. Inspired by Pasolini’s Comizi d’Amore (1964), she travels across Italy to create a contemporary portrait of Gen Z, through personal interviews. Conducted entirely in Italian, there she examines themes such as evolving communication, dating, the influence of social media, and feminism in a currently binary society, grappling with issues like femicides, and facing a curious masculinity crisis. The project culminates in analog portraits paired with transcriptions of these conversations, presented as text-image compositions that weave together different personal experiences, in order to dive into the collective experience.

 

Karla Hiraldo Voleau, ( 1992, is a French-Dominican artist, based in Lausanne.
She holds a Master’s in Photography from ECAL (Lausanne, Switzerland, 2018). Her first photobook, Hola Mi Amol (2019), earned her recognition as a Foam Talent (2020), VFG prize laureate (2018), and Aperture finalist (2019). She won the Olympus Recommended Fellowship (2020), the Talent Picto prize (2024), and exhibited at Art Basel, becoming a finalist in the Swiss Design Awards (2022).
Her work has been shown at Paris Photo as a solo (2024), at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2020), French National Library BNF (2025), ICP New York (2023), FoAM (2020), and Bündner Kunstmuseum (2024), among other international venues. Her solo exhibition Another Love Story debuted at MEP Paris (2022) and toured internationally. The project was published as her second photobook by Mörel Books (2023).

27/04 SUNDAY

 

H 11 CHIOSTRI DI SAN PIETRO | LABORATORIO APERTO
meet the artist
FEDERICA SASSO | KARLA HIRALDO VOLEAU
Moderators LUCE LEBART, TIM CLARK, WALTER GUADAGNINI
Live subtitling provided by FIADDA Emilia Romagna, Association for the Rights of Deaf People and Families, as part of the ACCESs regional project

Exhibition Venue

Chiostri di San Pietro
via Emilia San Pietro, 44/c
Reggio Emilia

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Opening hours

opening days
24th of April › 19-23
25th of April › 10-23
26th of April › 10-23
27th of April › 10-20

from 1st of May to 8th of June
Thursday › 10-13 / 15-20
Friday, Saturday, Sunday and public holidays › 10-20

Category
Chiostri di San Pietro