LATENZA
solo show, Bigaignon, Paris, 2024
Latenza is a project consisting of photographic images and bronzes.
The photographs use vegetal matrices as a negative, a partial revelation of the image as development, and omit fixing, becoming images that change shape/colour through light. The boxes in which they are contained make it possible to regulate the time and quantity of light absorption through a voluntary gesture: they are equipped with an opening door, which is composed of a copper plate, enamelled on both sides, removable and reversible. On the outside, the enamel is a monochrome glass: there are 10 enamels for the 10 colours of the visible spectrum (white, yellow, orange, red, grey, green, blue, indigo, violet and black). Inside, the enamel is a dendritic form resulting from a reaction between copper and glass. As a whole, the work presents an idea of light as physical and measurable on the outside, invisible and changing on the inside.
The series is completed by bronze sculptures: the Gliommeri. The bronzes, like so many intricate balls of yarn and Gordian knots, are, rather than metaphors, the concrete exemplification of the apparent disorder of what is visible to us.