In a summer night of 1989, Chiara Ernandes was stillborn after childbirth. She was like that for five long minutes. The most rhetoric, shocking narration would spend some words embellishing the grief of a mother, It would linger on the frantic father's powerlessness, on the doctors' frenzy and their search of a small rationalistic miracle as priests of a rationalistic cult. And on the relief of that first breath. But it would neglect the fundamental protagonist, the newly born baby, as if her unripe emotional state could make her immune from the changes in a still unknown world, which let her keep waiting on the threshold for five interminable minutes. Still Birth is not only a book, it's the result of a visual imprinting, of a limbo that left a scar on a child's subconscious mind. She decided to wait on the other side before staking her claim to exist. These pages try to rebuild the whole of an almost thirty-year old woman, who doesn't remember that child but feels an earthy energy flowing through her. The one that the Spanish call Duende and Garcia Lorca described like that: 'The Duende belongs to a few people. It's the energy of the Earth. It is known to burn your blood like a tropic made of glass, which is consuming or rejecting the sweet geometry we were taught. It disrupts the styles we know; it leans on human overwhelming sorrow.' In this restlessness Still Birth took shape. From the first narrational foundations, inhabited by motionless landscapes, by rocky panoramas - by the Duende, indeed, that in those five minutes nested inside her - the photographer has continued her ceaseless wandering. In those suspended landscapes, another narration found roots, the one of her Inner Self. Still Birth has become the reconstruction of her past, starting from an epicentre, her Non-Birth, to get to understand herself and her imagery. Family objects, archive images, suggestive and poetic symbolism, her birth's medical records, all these instruments contribute to expanding those five minutes, turning them into a fundamental narrative starting point, around which all the author's existence is revolving.