As
a result of a small study on the physics of light as matter, appeared
the curiosity to investigate its ability to impart the real world -
essentially by its impact on a photo sensitive surface. By utilizing
the ancient principle of the optical chamber - here imagined as a "revealer" of hidden and latent realities, awaiting within it to
manifest themselves only at the penetration of light - is created
images conceived as direct imprints of reality; "discovering" small worlds, or alternative sets - "still life" - isolated in a
narrow room (camera) but real. They become the matrix, the light
being the "material" and the pinhole camera the instrument. "Anachronistic" proceedings to impress the elements of the
existing.
The
reflection that occurred after the small study on light and its
capacity to refile reality, came across my already existing ideas
about the ontological implications that arise when you consider the
relation between a photograph and its causal reasons (notion parallel
to the relationship between image and its potential kinship with
reality).
“I
think that these considerations have an immense philosophical
importance” - writes Arthur C. Danto, that treats this argument in
his book
The
Transfiguration of the Commonplace. A Philosophy of Art.
He
is referring to the difference between a photographic image that has
been caused by a piece of the physical world, “...whose radiations
interact photochemically with the specially treated paper to produce
the exact arrangement of light and shade” and - even though
identical with the first photographic image - an image caused by
other means.
“But
it is not (identical), because it lacks the appropriate causal
condition. The photograph caused in a different way is different from
our first photograph, and you can imagine causal stories, that are
incompatible with the claim that the photograph is a photograph of
something, and therefore firstly incompatible with the claim, that it
is a photograph”.
So,
ultimately, you could deduce, that an analogue photograph is a
literal imprint of reality...
Group
show "Teach back" and "Io vedo, io guardo",
CRAC
Centro Ricerca Arte Contemporanea e Novella Guerra in collaboration
with C/O careof, ARTFORMS, StudioMDT, Macapanto, Careof Fabbrica del
Vapore, Milano IT Curated by Annalisa Catani.
1) "Still life" - Army
of cuttlefish bones
Inkjet
pigment prints of pinhole photo on Canson Baryta Photographique
310gr/m2
(30
x 42,5 cm);
2)
Study 01
Inkjet
pigment prints of pinhole photo on Canson Baryta Photographique
310gr/m2
(24
x 30 cm);
3)
Study 02
Inkjet
pigment prints of pinhole photo on Canson Baryta Photographique
310gr/m2
(24
x 30 cm);
4)
Study 03
Inkjet
pigment prints of pinhole photo on Canson Baryta Photographique
310gr/m2
(24
x 30 cm).
