carmen introduction

I consider myself a warm, organized, and cheerful person, with leadership qualities. Passionate about exploring life from aesthetic and surreal perspectives, I’m always seeking new challenges. I live in the present while imagining a transformative future. I maintain an active lifestyle, practicing sports, traveling, and spending time in nature. I also have a deep love for the arts, music, photography, cinema, and fashion. I am a creative person with a strong interest in different cultures and languages. I speak Italian fluently, after having participated in an exchange program in Oxford, United Kingdom. Recently, I completed a volunteer project with turtles in Costa Rica, an experience that helped me clear my mind and boost my creativity. I lived in Venice, where I studied cinema—among other disciplines—at Ca’ Foscari University until January 2024. Since then, my path has been marked by the pursuit of new experiences that broaden my horizons and inspire my growth. I completed my undergraduate studies with a thesis on the audiovisual world and graduated in April 2025. Now, I continue with great excitement for everything to come—never still.

My academic journey has been one of self-exploration and reflection, where I have researched diverse topics ranging from biology, sociology, and psychoanalysis to cinema and fashion. I have drawn inspiration from fascinating concepts: from understanding how an ant colony functions in order to grasp the adaptability of human society, to cinema, where the camera becomes an extension of the perception of the world. I find cameras fascinating; I feel they are my prosthesis in the world. As Dziga Vertov stated, the camera is “a more perfect metal eye than the human eye, an eye that does not blink” (Vertov, 1929, Man with a Movie Camera).