Marina Sersale, born and raised in the heart of Rome, has long nurtured an intimate and enduring dialogue with the visual arts. A former documentary filmmaker, she returned to photography in late 2012, marking the beginning of a deeply personal and continually evolving artistic journey. With over two decades devoted to artistic perfumery, Sersale co-founded in 2004, alongside her husband Sebastian Alvarez Murena, the acclaimed fragrance house Eau d'Italie Le Sirenuse Positano. This same sensibility permeates Sersale's photographic language. Her gaze - attentive, instinctive - lingers on the ephemeral, where light and atmosphere become carriers of meaning. Each image emerges as a quiet distillation of experience, translating fragments of the past into moments suspended in time, charged with a subtle, resonant intensity. Her work was first presented in November 2015 as part of the group exhibition Chance Encounters, curated by Hikari Creative at N.6 Gallery in Tehran. In March 2016, she held her first solo exhibition at ILEX Gallery in Rome, followed by further solo and group exhibitions worldwide.
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"From sunbathers holding hands to rain-soaked metro stations, Marina Sersale's magical monochrome images take us across Italy, Japan and beyond."-The Guardian