Identity Transitions / Giulia Longo Photographic Exhibition / 20 Analogue Photos + video on BN
Opening night Friday 13 Oct 2017 h.19-22 From 13/10 to 10/12 2017The PARIOLIFOTOGRAFIA_STUDIO GALLERY, is pleased to host from 13th Oct to 10th Dec 2017Identity Transitions, Giulia Longo Photographic Exhibition
opening times 10am-5.30pm / sat and sun by appointment only
gilberto@pariolifotografia.it “Délice de se perdre dans l’image pressentie.Je me suis levée de mon cadavre, je suis partie en quête de qui je suis.Pèlerin de moi-même, je suis allée vers celle qui dort dans un pays au vent.”A. PizarnikIdentity is multiform: the construction of the ego is a process, an unstoppable continuum.With these photographs I try to respond to an intimate and personal urgency, born out of the need to define my identity. Three macro-areas divide this research, at first glance three declinations split by themselves, but whose intimate and deep bond is brought to light by a reflection on self-representation as self-definition. In this investigation the conscience of a body whose consistency is at the same time transient and permanent is undeniable.Contradiction and insurmountable condition: on the one hand, the impossibility of stopping the time, complicated by a reality that slips faster and, on the other, the attempt to block its flow through photography. Captured by light and imprinted on photographic film, using slow exposure times, the body becomes rarefied and its identity creeps into the silver salts revealed by the chemical agents.But closed in itself, the ego is weak, fragile, confined to an irresolvable approximation. This consideration makes the next step necessary, and here is the first transition, that is, the confrontation with the other.By removing my body from the photographic field, I try to establish a dialogue between my presence behind the camera and the body of the other, leaving the identities free to justify themselves in a shared intimacy.Delivered from a protracted isolation, I realize that the construction of identity is authentically enclosed in being-for- the-other.The essence of the ego is the result of encounters and clashes, its construction requires both recognition from the other and the acceptance of the other.The last summit of this triangle is a territory, the place where I grew up and where I came back after several years.Redefine my identity by discovering my homeland: that’s the sense of a transition in progress.These photographs show places of the so-called transumanza deserted cascineand masserie, as well as found objects, remains of a cellar of the Second World War. Subjective shots of an interior landscape, naive contemplations of a self trying to repossess time, a time dilated through the use of a 12 iso film, whose very low sensitivity gives strange and dreamy images.I have learned to love these deserted lands and in the silence that surrounds them, I have seen possible answers.
