Mirror Threshold
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Aperture , 2009
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 190x120 (cm 125x84)
The random movements of a black curtain crossed by visitors entering and exiting a darkened projection room were captured in a single photograph by a drastically long shutter speed, thus erasing their movements and presence. The resulting image is a Threshold between light and darkness, between equally invisible interior and exterior spaces.
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Aperture, 2009
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 190x120
Installation view, Nicoletta Rusconi, Milan, 2009
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Black Horizon, 2009
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 125x84 (cm 190x120)
Installation view, Nicoletta Rusconi, Milan, 2009
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Black Horizon, 2009
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 125x84 (cm 190x120)
Installation view, Nicoletta Rusconi, Milan, 2009
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Black Horizon, 2009
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 125x84
Installation view, private collection, Milan
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Black Horizon, 2009
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 125x84
Installation view, private collection, Milan
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Chance 10, 2009
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 190x120 (cm 125x84)
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Chance 10, 2009
cm 190x120
Installation view, Nicoletta Rusconi, Milan, 2009
PORTRAITS, 1996-2013
30 ink-jet prints on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 126x55 each
Installation view, Bruce Silverstein, New York, 2013
PORTRAITS, 1996-2013
30 ink-jet prints on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 126x55 each
Installation view, Bruce Silverstein, New York, 2013
RCA SELF-PORTRAIT, 2012
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 190x120 (cm 125x84)
RCA SELF-PORTRAIT, 2012
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 190x120
Installation view, Bruce Silverstein, New York, 2013
MIRROR THRESHOLD 16, 2011
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 190x120 (cm 125x84)
MIRROR THRESHOLDS
from left to right: Aperture, 2009; Mirror Threshold 16, 2011; Mirror Threshold - Chance 10, 2009
cm 190x120 each
Installation view, PAC, Milan, 2011
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Six Cuts, 2013
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 190x120 (cm 125x84)
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Six Cuts, 2013
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 190x120
Installation view, Bruce Silvestein, Paris Photo, 2014
MIRROR THRESHOLDS - In Time, 2010
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
variable measures
Installation view, private collection, Italy
MIRROR THRESHOLDS - In Time, 2010
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
variable measures
Installation view, private collection, Italy
MIRROR THRESHOLDS - In Time, 2010
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
variable measures
Installation view, private collection, Italy
MIRROR THRESHOLDS - In Time, 2010
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
variable measures
Installation view, private collection, Italy
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Shaped 01, 2011
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 160x150 (cm 133x125)
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Shaped 01, 2011
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 133x125
Installation view, Bruce Silverstein, Paris Photo, 2011
MIRROR THRESHOLD 15 - Negative and Positive, 2011
Ink-jet prints on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 125x73 (190x120) each
MIRROR THRESHOLD 15 - Negative, 2011
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 125x73
Installation view, private collection, Milan.
MIRROR THRESHOLD 15 - Positive, 2011
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 125x73
Installation view, private collection, Milan.
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Black Curtain, 2006-2014
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 100x66 (190x120)
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Black Curtain, 2006-2014
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 100x66
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Flicker, 2006-2014
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
190x120 (cm 100x66)
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Flicker, 2006-2014
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 100x66
Installation view
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Flicker, 2006-2014
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 190x120
Installation view, Bruce Silverstein, New York, 2015
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Double light, 2011-2013
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 80x57
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Double light, 2011-2013
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 80x57
Installation view, Photo & Contemporary, Turin, 2014
MIRROR THRESHOLDS
from left to right: RCA Self Portrait, 2012; Six Cuts, 2013, Aperture, 2009; Double Light, 2011-2013
ink-jet prints on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 125x84 each
Installation view, Spazio Borgogno, Milan, 2016
ABOUT THIS SERIES
These work belongs to the ‘Mirror Thresholds’ series: direct ink-jet prints on mirror surfaces in which the beholder’s reflection appears in the imageless portions of the image. It simultaneously represents what is inside and outside: exactly where the surface is devoid of an image, in the gap left free by the absence of information, it embraces both the phenomenological world and the inner world of the image.
‘Mirror Thresholds’ extend the idea of photography from the very place of the shot to that where it is seen, and the exposure from the moment when taken to the present of the observer’s hic et nunc: his gaze, time and experience. They focus on Who rather than or beyond the What, while the beholder’s attention shifts from the referent, reduced to a distant background noise of retinal vision, to the Subject who confronts the actuality of the work, activating it at every new glance.
The image simultaneously presents and represents, establishing a participatory relationship with the observer; the Subject sees himself and the other from himself -the world and the image of the world- at the same time. Thus, in turn, the physical space that hosts the work is the active element that places the viewer in front of himself, and his act of looking is actively part of the visible and its interpretation.
I wonder: is the truth of an image inscribed in the eye of the beholder? Where is it to be recognized? Like the pearl in an oyster, which is generated in a point of contact and friction, does it reside in the place that simultaneously unites and separates two streams of information and two truths: on the Threshold?
Le Soglie a Specchio sono realizzate a getto d’inchiostro direttamente su superfici ad alto potere riflettente, non utilizzando il tradizionale processo di stampa su carta chimica foto-sensibile. Poiché questo innovativo sistema di stampa non utilizza il colore bianco, là dove una fotografia sarebbe normalmente bianca essendo questo il colore del supporto, appare invece l’immagine riflessa del soggetto. Questo bianco/specchio prodotto dall’assenza d’informazione, o per certi versi dal suo eccesso, rappresenta simultaneamente ciò che sta dentro e fuori dall’opera: proprio là dove la superficie è priva d’immagine, essa genera luce e riflesso abbracciando simultaneamente il mondo fenomenologico e quello interno all’immagine.
Le Soglie a Specchio estendono l’idea di fotografica dal luogo specifico della ripresa a quello della fruizione, la sua esposizione si prolunga così dal momento passato dello scatto a quello presente della visione, nell’esperienza dello hic et nunc dell’osservatore: il suo sguardo, tempo ed esperienza.
Desidero spostare l’attenzione dal referente, ormai ridotto a un lontano rumore di fondo della visione retinica, al Soggetto che si confronta con la realtà dell’opera, attivandola ad ogni nuovo sguardo. L’immagine è presentazione e rappresentazione, in un rapporto attivo e partecipe con l’osservatore: una relazione nella quale il Soggetto vede sé e l’altro da sé, -il mondo e l’immagine del mondo- contemporaneamente. Così lo spazio fisico che ospita il processo dello sguardo è a sua volta l’elemento attivo che pone il Soggetto al cospetto di sé stesso: colui che si scorge nell’atto di guardare è parte del visibile ed assieme della sua interpretazione.
Questi lavori riguardano il Chi e non cosa: il tempo presente della visione e il luogo in cui accade rivelano il senso dello sguardo, offrendo un nuovo orizzonte interpretativo al pensiero sulla Fotografia.
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