Exposed to the moon [serie Abyss]
2009
photography [lambda print, plexi +d-bond]
70 x 100 cm
Exposed to the Moon depicts semi-submerged plants coated with mucilage in a city river, giving rise to an ambiguous landscape suspended between organic matter and apparition.
The submerged vegetation evokes a nocturnal atmosphere, where forms evoke chrysalises, veils, and pearls under the moonlight.
Delicate textures, fragments of light, and fraying membranes suggest a space in which matter seems to transfigure and dissolve.
The image inhabits a threshold between reality and vision, echoing the Sphere of the Moon in Dante’s Divine Comedy, where images appear as fragile reflections, difficult to distinguish from reality itself.
The work explores this instability of perception, where the visible opens onto other modes of presence.
“But there appeared a vision […] Such as through polished and transparent glass or waters crystalline and undisturbed but not so deep as that their bed be lost, come back again the outlines of our faces so feeble, that a pearl on forehead white comes not less speedily unto our eyes; […] So I ran in error opposite, esteeming them as mirrored semblances”
[The Divine Comedy, First Heaven, The Sphere of the Moon]
Selected exhibitions:
– Home and Dream, 15th International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China, 2015
– Disturbances and disorders, Alessandria Biennale of Photography, Alessandria, Italy, 2011
