Carla Rossi / Bellissima AI printed on public billboard

printed on public billboard

The photographs create a compelling visual journey that merges contemporary scenes with ancient engravings

shared with a few female artists and thinkers

a notebook with questions and captured the familiar repetition of motherhood: feeding

Carla Rossi / Bellissima AI printed on public billboardBeautifulfor whom? Through Carla Rossis lens, beauty is not a fixed idea but a performance, shaped, repeated, and refined in response to the gaze of others. In Bellissima, Rossi photographs Rebecca, a young contestant she met during the Miss Italia selections, tracing her journey from casting calls to national auditions and uncovering a system driven by spectacle, competition, and the tireless pursuit of a narrowly defined ideal of femininity. The