“SPRING SOUL-STICE"    

Inspired by Alfred Stieglitz's declaration, "For that is the power of the camera, seize the familiar and give it new meaning," Italian artist Yasmina Barbet's digital photography reflects a unique personal vision that offers a fresh and exciting visual perspective to our world. The eye of her camera captures people and objects, allowing the viewer to get a sense of the energy surrounding them, becoming a part of the scene as they are drawn into the kinetic energy of the snap-shot. Exploring the medium of digital art zealously, Ms. Barbet searches for the beauty in reality, translating that beauty into her own language of color and form.

By creating a mood through powerful light and ingenious color, Ms. Barbet taps into a vital energy by allowing emotional power to filter through her camera. By transcribing colors, shapes and rhythms, Yasmina Barbet encapsulates divergent visions through a dazzling visual syntax. A gorgeous spontaneity reverberates in her oeuvre, as each picture creates a narrative in and, of itself that is open for interpretation. Ultimately, each image in an experience unto itself, allowing the audience to step through the doorway of the picture and enter the world of Ms. Barbet. “Images are a true language, where form demands a constant training to refine its expression, where our rational sense cannot be detached from our inner self, from our personal path,” says Ms. Barbet of her inspiration.

Galvanized by the people and faces of her native Italy, Ms. Barbet’s digital techniques involve assembling fragmented, disproportionate images of faces, patterns, and textures both from her imagination and daily encounters. Creating provocative visual stories, these unique arrangements force viewers to consider even the most familiar objects and photographic portraits in a completely new and spontaneous way. Exploring the dichotomy between reality and perception, Ms. Barbet explains that “When we use images allegorically to express a thought, a concept, an observation, or a state of mind, the elements of the real then assume a symbolic connotation. Sometimes these two aspects meet…”

By sharing her vision with us, Yasmina Barbet provides the opportunity to share in her wonderment at the ways of the world. Charged with life and energy, each one of her digital compositions is provocative and mysterious amalgamation of life. Brilliant and inspired, Ms. Barbet’s digital photography encourages the viewer to connect into the world. Cultivating her own technique and expression of the human condition and our visual perceptions, Ms. Barbet’s photographs are gems of the digital genre and have catapulted her to national and international recognition.