3 Silvia Noferi
Paraphilies
Silvia Noferi was born in Florence in 1977, where she lives and works.
Her career as a photographer began in her adolescence and developed over the years through a
variety of experiences of study. She enrolled in the Fondazione Studio Marangoni school of
photography In 2003, and graduated from the three-year course in 2006. In those years she began
her artistic research initially focusing on self-portraiture. She has attended numerous workshops
with artists and photographers such as: Mario Cresci, Marzia Migliora, Gea Casolaro, etc.
He has exhibited in various exhibitions both in Italy and abroad and won prizes such as: the Premio
Celeste 2009, the exhibition prize of ARTELAGUNA, the ITS talent support prize. In 2008 she
received a special mention of the jury in the Talent Prize competition. Some of his works have
become part of permanent collections such as that of Mac'n, of Monsummano Terme.
My research is characterized by the creation of images with rarefied atmospheres, which
investigate the themes of identity, fantasy, dreams and memory. Always maintaining an
open dialogue with something that is beyond the visible, an off-screen, which is the real
focal point of my photographs. Often I take inspiration from my fascination with
philosophical and literary thought, without neglecting the actuality of our time.
Paraphilies
Paraphilies
The term paraphilia refers to a sexual pathology in which those affected are attracted to particular
sexual fantasies, in the realization of which they find excitement and fulfillment. Think of fetishism,
a very popular practice, bondage or shibari, to make the concept clear.
Not all the forms in which paraphilias manifest themselves are considered sexual perversions, there
are and have been classified more than 500 different types, the way to see them changes over time,
with morality and with the development of psychology, psychiatry and sexology. They can be
limited to fantasies, thoughts and larval sexual impulses, as in the two types represented here: the
feeling of dominance that comes from the partner prevented from moving as a result of mutilation
(scientific name: acrotomophilia) and the practice of suffocation (scientific name: asphyxiophilia or
hypoxiphilia).
Reading to document myself, I discover that in both of these strange preferences, the active
protagonist (let’s say) does not identify with the part that lends itself or with the part that suffers but
perceives it as an object. A vast world of “fantasies” and terms that define them, for practitioners,
for example, there is a word to refer to people (in truth trivial) who practice conventional sex:
“vanilla”, a bit ‘derogatory that refers to vanilla, sweet, but not strong. These photos are an ideal
and dramatized representation of reality and follow a precise and punctilious “script”. The final
appearance is distilled and purified from any possible morbidity and fall into vulgarity by the
interpretation that the artist gives, so that the photos become “tableaux vivants” with an extravagant
component of “glamour” glossy magazine
Paraphilies