Tatiana Cardellicchio is a photographic artist known for her self-portraits. Tatiana born in Lecce(Italy), where the southern light becomes a tangible material in her work. Her practice moves between visual poetry and the exploration of identity, often through the dialogue between body and nature. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including Paris, London and New York. She has participated in institutional group shows such as "I Am – Io Sono", at the Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia (Rome), and curated exhibitions like "Endless Spring" (Paratissima, Turin). Her photographs, suspended in time, transform natural elements like rocks, water, wind, and trees into metaphors of resilience, transformation, and belonging. Through her visual language, Cardellicchio creates meditative spaces,places of stillness and reflection where time feels suspended. "The dictatorship of petals" examines the symbolic power of flowers—delicate yet pervasive elements often associated with fragility and beauty, but also capable of revealing dynamics of control and social expectations. In this work, flowers become visual metaphors of oppression and resistance, exploring the tension between nature’s apparent lightness and the weight of cultural conventions it can embody.