Transizioni
2009
— Early photographic work exploring the possibility of an altered perception of reality through the medium of photography.
Produced for Prossimamente (Franco Cosimo Panini Editore, 2009), the project was developed with the support of Cassa di Risparmio di Vignola and includes short stories by Giorgio Fontana, Federica Manzon, Laura Sandi and Alberto Urbelli, with a prologue by Neri Marcorè.
Transizioni marks the first cycle of a research path investigating the possibility of an alternative perception of reality through photography.
At the core of the photographic image lies the invisible movement that circulates behind the instantaneity of the shot, within its stillness. Suspended between reality and illusion, the image ultimately inclines toward the latter, almost entirely dissolving any referential relationship with the object and its ordinary meaning.
The image itself becomes the present trace of movement, where time remains poised between past and future, between the instant before and what follows after, suspending itself and denying the possibility of a naturally perceptible continuum. To lead the image toward becoming a trace of movement – with natural light as the defining force of the image – is to bring movement into a vital rhythm, suspending the gaze within a mutable instant.
Photography is thus able to reveal what is denied to consciousness and to the senses: that which exists “in-between”, in the middle.
A reality suspended between dream and imagination; an illusory reality, no longer an illusion of reality, as the present so often demands.