Veduta del Monte Vesuvio 3

Like the ancient city immersed in oblivion by natural disaster, later revealed through the use of plaster, Vittoria Gerardi uses two different materials to visually translate the richness of Pompeii. Its memory is evoked through the plasticity of the plaster and its “return to the light” emerges as metaphor through the silver gelatin. “The pictures I was able to take of the city are trapped in the reduced space of the negative, the images stagnate at the border of latency before being revealed by the positive print. Though, in Pompeii, what is revealed is still somewhat veiled!" explains Vittoria Gerardi.

L’état de latence que renferme la photographie est aux origines de la recherche visuelle de Vittoria Gerardi : révéler la frontière qui sépare le visible de l’invisible, fuir toute représentation de la réalité imprimée dans le négatif.

Veduta del Monte Vesuvio 3

€3,200

Confine #288-289

€3,750