Time Longer
In this work I explore the breakdown of time, by shattering the space-time continuum before restoring it in a simultaneous vision of several photographs.
While in film projection, single frames follow each other imperceptibly one after the other, in photography, they can sit side by side, giving a concurrent vision of an event.
“Visual” event or story, minimalist narratives that belong uniquely to the photographic medium, stories that can’t be told in writing.
Subjects that look alike in each image only to transform immediately afterwards. Or the sequence is different, even reversed, compared to the chronology of the individual shots because, at times, the visual narrative is more effective if it transcends reality.
I try to choose images that will unfold in the eyes of the observer, I look for longer moments, moments that recur in proximity and by contiguity.
It’s a question of time, time that stretches.
The photography critic Denis Curti wrote an accompanying text on the series and hosted some photos as part of a collective exhibition held between 2020 and 2021, staged at his Milan-based STILL gallery, where my work is currently being shown.