Recreational Animals

A visual reflection about animals in captivity, following the transformation of old recreational zoos into a committed to conservation and education places, now paradoxically passed off as loyal tools to preservation. Today animals are still in cages, no matter how natural they look like.

Eleonora Pecorella was born in Rome in 1973. Upon completing a degree in history of art, she undertook postgraduate work at the University of Rome. She has been working in Contemporary Art for many years, curating and coordinating exhibitions, shows and projects. In London, where she lives and works, she attended photography courses at Saint Martins College of Art and Design. After two years of work, while she attended a course at the Rome Botanic Garden and a plant and flower photography course at the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, she had exhibited her work in her first solo show Botanical Beauty at the Imperial College of London â?? South Kensington in May-June 2010. Recently she has had the Honorable Mention form the 2010 International Photography Award and shown in the group exhibitions La Foto Rupestre at the Church of Santâ??Agostino in Faleria and Il Bello fa bene at the Archiginnasio of Bologna.