In front of me

work
In front of me
In front of me
category Photography
subject Human figure
tags portrait , dad, analogic, handcoloured
base 173 cm
height 15 cm
depth 0 cm
year 2014
Selection of seven hand-colored silver prints on baryta paper.

The project stems from the lack of information on my biological parents, who lived in Ethiopia.

The only significant group of documents i have about my family of origin is a small photo album that i recived a year after my arrival in Italy: i was six.

The images show my father and my mother posing in a photographic studio.

I was particularly struck by a portrait of my father in black and white colored with aniline.

I reproduced and enlarged that image many times, coloring the prints by hand.

The repetition of the work on the same photograph helps me not forget, in an attempt to act on time, block it, modify it, deceive it.

Work is meditative, spiritual activity, the subject i have chosen is for me an icon, with which i dialogue through time.


artist
Teka
Artist, Bergamo
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