Shortlist, Cryptic Venus by Nicoletta Cerasomma

"The characters and subjects of this project are women from Lucca, Italy, and represent the feminine figure that shapes their lives with their own will. In doing so, they deprive themselves of their own identity and become symbolic icons. Although some of these characters are based on real people, the mystery that surrounds them lets the viewer enter an imaginary world, made up of ancestral fears and archetypes."