A dance in which every single movement – even what the eye perceives
as a gasp or so - it's a detail that embodies an entire world. By the obstinate
search for what is essential, what remains after removing all, the game takes
place in a scene where
extrems cohabit: life and dead, presence and absence,
the echo of an ancien tradition and today's tensions, skin, internal organs, male and female.
These photographs do not return the story of this dance, they do not
explain, they do not document. They resist the temptation of revealing
everything and making the gesture becoming an heroic act, isolated in a
stillness that doesn’t belong to it.
Rather these pictures say the same thing, they keep the mystery alive by using another
language. The movement developed in the space is translated and stratified in the long term exposure of the
camera. A dance where extremes coexists
is observed by a look that proceed with a similar step. They record the
here and now, the place where took place what they show, but they transform the
specificity of space and time by receiving the echo of the painting’s tradition: the colors, the composition. They extend their possibilities of
description till almost dissolving it. In the tension that is generated by this process, the core that gives life to the dance becomes visible
and so the intention behind it.
The bodies - of which we
cannot perceive the details - in some cases become fading shadows, soft matter. They are in the space - in the water or
in the air does not matter - and they are crossed by these elements, they
change and are changed by their
surroundings. Through these photographs we breathe with our eyes the
effects of the balance produced by their peculiar form of presence. In one of
them, on the background, a walking boy appears.
Emanuela DeCecco, 30.08.11
Emanuela DeCecco, 30.08.11
