Big Bang e In Altro Mare

Big Bang e In Altro Mare
2009 - 2010

The shots comprising Big Bang capture fragments of worlds unattainably remote existing purely in the act of perception, given the sidereal distances involved. Their presence is glimpsed ephemerally through the inner light they give out. Reviving off-camera techniques, such as the cliché verre and the photogram, I seek to work back to the origins of language. Inert substances like paint-sprayed glass, mushrooms or ships-in-bottles transform into photos of cosmic space, nuclear explosions and ghostly vessels gliding through mystery seas. The dark room is the point from which to detect these flickers of infinity.

I decided I would give such phantasmagoria an architectural extension within which I might find images at an embryo stage. Room view cosmos is an installation. A totally dark room; on the ceiling through a lighted window one glimpses a starry sky; on the floor a black perspex rectangle catches the reflection cast from above. A mirror effigy that turns liquid, vibrates and yields up its latent state. It captures the magic instant when the photographic image is not yet stablished and may vanish at any moment.