work
Moti dell’anima
| category | Photography |
| subject | Human figure |
| tags | sea, self portrait, art, photo |
| base | 100 cm |
| height | 50 cm |
| depth | 2 cm |
| year | 2022 |
Sink or emerge, suffocate or breathe, disappear into the abyss or rise towards the light. The soul oscillates, like the wave motions of the sea, between light and darkness, joy and suffering, life and death.
Nothing in this life belongs to us and exists, if not our own belonging and existence in the world. The soul makes use of the senses to feed on life, consume matter, transform the present into memory. Beyond memory lies nothingness, so what we live today, the experience of the present remains hooked to that memory. Maybe in the light... maybe in the abyss...
In this self-portrait, the work is conceived as a sort of photographic loop.
The two photographs capture the subject in the moment of immersion or surfacing. This is located in mid-water in a metaphorical conjunction between two parallel and antithetical worlds in a state of suspension. The same shot, in the post-production phase, is superimposed on itself in a specular way and wants to suggest the moment in which the two opposing forces, one downwards, the other upwards, cancel each other out.
In this work, importance is given not to the subject itself, but to the gesture, the action it performs, the possible crossing, the motion of the soul that allows it to sink or, on the contrary, emerge.
Purposely, interpretation is left free to the user who, moved by his own feelings and moods, will be able to solve this existential puzzle, reflect himself in the work, grasp meanings and imagine his possible action.
2 Photographs, Inkjet print on plexiglass
Nothing in this life belongs to us and exists, if not our own belonging and existence in the world. The soul makes use of the senses to feed on life, consume matter, transform the present into memory. Beyond memory lies nothingness, so what we live today, the experience of the present remains hooked to that memory. Maybe in the light... maybe in the abyss...
In this self-portrait, the work is conceived as a sort of photographic loop.
The two photographs capture the subject in the moment of immersion or surfacing. This is located in mid-water in a metaphorical conjunction between two parallel and antithetical worlds in a state of suspension. The same shot, in the post-production phase, is superimposed on itself in a specular way and wants to suggest the moment in which the two opposing forces, one downwards, the other upwards, cancel each other out.
In this work, importance is given not to the subject itself, but to the gesture, the action it performs, the possible crossing, the motion of the soul that allows it to sink or, on the contrary, emerge.
Purposely, interpretation is left free to the user who, moved by his own feelings and moods, will be able to solve this existential puzzle, reflect himself in the work, grasp meanings and imagine his possible action.
2 Photographs, Inkjet print on plexiglass
