Untethered

Solo Exhibition by Sissela Johansson

Fabula Works is proud to present a solo exhibition by Danish-born, Sweden-based photographer Sissela Johansson at Millepiani in Rome.

Untethered brings together two bodies of work that approach portraiture as a space of emotional exposure. Johansson’s photographs resist polish and performance, lingering instead on moments in which people appear unguarded, suspended, introspective.

One series places figures in water, suspended between weightlessness and stillness. The other captures intimate expressions and gestures, revealing sincere and often ambiguous emotional states. Together, the works create tension between physical suspension and inner emotions.

This tension also reflects Johansson’s own relationship with identity. With a multicultural background and a life lived across continents, she approaches identity as something fluid rather than fixed, which can be shaped by places, encounters, memories and contradictions. Her expressive personality and heightened sensitivity inform a practice that is both direct and deeply attentive to the complexity of the people she photographs.

In Untethered, identity is not presented as a finished answer. It is something delicately balanced yet continually shifting. The photographs leave their subjects room to be complex and undefined, beyond the roles and appearances through which we usually come to recognise one another.

Raw, intimate and quietly confrontational, Untethered explores what remains when we let go of the need to define ourselves.

Exhibition dates: 11 September - 3 November 2026

Mon-Fri 9am to 7pm

Millepiani Gallery

via Nicolo Odero, 13, 00154 Roma RM, Italy

Opening reception: 11 September 6pm

Kit stampa / Press kit (italiano)