ADDICTS BY LILY CARMESI

Lily Carmesi works through self-representation and constant transformation, using her own image as raw material.

Her aesthetic is excessive, artificial, and provocative, yet always charged with a poetic and vulnerable undertone.

Her work resonates with alternative and nocturnal communities, where the marginal becomes central.

Her practice exists at a point of friction between visual art, fashion, and underground culture, questioning the boundaries between self-portraiture, fiction, and performance. Through intense imagery and fragmented narratives, Lily Carmesí proposes new contemporary myths in which the intimate and the collective blur into one another.

“𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯’ 𝘺𝘰𝘶

𝘐𝘵 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴

𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘪𝘵

‘𝘊𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦

𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘐 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘨𝘰 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺?”

Lily Carmesí embodies a figure that oscillates between the vampiric and the vulnerable, between desire and intoxication. The body appears altered, contaminated, pierced by a fluorescent green substance that evokes both toxicity and vitality. The mouth — perforated, open, exposed — becomes a symbol of emotional hunger: loving as an act of consumption, of dependency, of wound.

Love hurts, yet it activates. Love intoxicates, yet it gives life. The artist transforms the emotional bond into a chemical substance — something ingested, circulating, transformative.

She does not portray a monster; she reveals the emotional monster that inhabits dependent love.

The female body ceases to be a passive object and becomes a subject that devours, desires, and willingly contaminates itself.

In this universe, love is not purity. It is excess. It is a wound. It is a fluorescent substance burning on the skin — and still, one longs to drink it again.