Paola Bertoncini is an Italian multidisciplinary artist and designer with an academic background in Fine Arts, specialized in Fashion Design.
With over twenty years of experience in the fashion industry as a Designer and Product Manager;her professional path has long been shaped by structure and functional constraints. After decades working within highly codified systems,her artistic practice emerged as a necessary shift, a space of autonomy and self-transformation.
Through digital collage and mixed visual languages,Bertoncini explores the human body as a fragmented and evolving entity.Her work investigates themes of identity, constraint, release, and reconstruction, translating personal experience into universal narratives of vulnerability and resilience.
The body is never represented as a whole, but as a sequence of fragments, layered and reassembled reflecting the tension between imposed structures and inner freedom.Minimal compositions, monochromatic palettes, and precise graphic interventions are used to emphasize balance and disruption, control and rupture.
Her recent artistic research marks a conscious transition from applied design to a more personal and expressive practice, where creation becomes an act of reclaiming authorship and choice.
Bertoncini’s work stands at the intersection of contemporary art, visual experimentation and embodied storytelling, positioning transformation not as an end point but as an ongoing process.