Raffaella Szilagyi graduated from Concordia University in 2016 with a BFA in Photography. Her work in based in mixed modern and traditional photographic practices, along with video work and performances.
Her interest started in the human relationship with the natural space and how the natural space can change us, and how human intervention changes the natural space over a span of time. Sometimes, these topics will include environmental and social issues, and research into how the human intervention in the natural space can cause harm. Later works looked into the fluid relationship between the human and the natural space when it comes to travel, and time.
Since the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, and a loss of access to travel and nature, it has forced the artist to look at their personal relationship with the natural space, and looking inwards on how the natural space has affected them, and the lack thereof.
As the research began looking at their own personal relationship with spaces, their interest evolved to include the human body and their personal relationship with the people around them. With a new interest for screenwriting and cinema, their work looked into human gestures and performance. The natural space became the personal space and how the environment that has been constructed around them has shaped them and their own daily life.
