2015 / Giro di luce / Mari tra le mura / photographic site-specific installation / Monastero di San Benedetto Conversano / Province of Puglia / IT /
Realized in the framework of a residency by SAC and the institution Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali, Polignano al Mare, curators: Nicola Zito, Edoardo Trisciuzzi
The site-specific project Giro di luce (The Way of Light) was realized during a two week creative residency in the premises of a former Benedictine monastery in the south of Italy in Conversano. The photographic installation was created after nights alone in the monastery. The phenomena of light and time hold symbolic and physical meaning in the work, as they are directly present in the analogical process of photography.
Enlargement on silver bromide paper. The light recording without the
use of a camera was exposed on photosensitive paper shortly after
sunset in the courtyard of the monastery.
Hanging negatives in space. The motif is the Sun, which was photographed
at different time intervals during four days. The twelve
negatives symbolize the twelve months, i.e. the annual cycle.
paradise courtyard.
Enlargement 80 x 80 cm on silver bromide paper. The image was exposed from the
negative with a mobile home made enlarger. The stabilization and fixation of the
image was done with brushes. The motif is a variety of seeds as a symbol of basic
human food, harvest and a particular season.
Projection of a negative of an old olive tree under the Gothic vault of
the monastery‘s Garden of Eden.
