Girl with Butterflies is one of four video works by Francesca Fini in the Su Misura collection, which explores the concept of contemporary identity by combining digital image-making and manipulation with historic portraiture.Girl with Butterflies is a digital manipulation of the painting Portrait of a Young Lady, by Isaack Luttichuys (1656).

“I immerse the original picture in the murky liquid of a nightmare, in which many blue butterflies rest on the girl's face, distorting her features with the beat of their wings. The eternal fixity, the intact beauty of a classic portrait becomes the carrier of the ephemeral and fragile nature of contemporary identity. My irrational phobia of butterflies is here exorcised in a sort of liberating rite.” - Francesca Fini.