Dentro la Caverna

  • Dentro la caverna - Mammut
    2011
    True giclée print, leger, white wood frame, 100x150 cm

In the Cave
2011 - 2012


A journey back to the origins of representation, a time of propitiatory rites when man painted the cave walls as though an image might change the course of events. An era when dream blurred with awareness of life and hallucination stamped its shadow on the rockface. A desire may then have awoken in man to fix and hold fragments of reality.
This prompted me to set tiny objects in candle light and photograph the shadows they cast on the wall. I sought to conjure an antique vision outside time, where everything is simply image.

  • Dentro la caverna - Paesaggio #1
    2011
    True giclée print, leger, white wood frame, 100x150 cm
  • Dentro la caverna - Paesaggio #2
    2011
    True giclée print, leger, white wood frame, 100x150 cm
  • Dentro la caverna
    2011
    Installation view at Betta Frigieri Arte Contemporanea, Modena
  • Dentro la caverna - Paesaggio #3
    2012
    Installation detail at at Nicoletta Rusconi Art Projects,
    Agrate Conturbia (NO)
  • Dentro la caverna - Paesaggio #3
    2012
    Installation view at Nicoletta Rusconi Art Projects,
    Agrate Conturbia (NO)
  • Dentro la caverna - Paesaggio #1
    2011
    Installation view at Galleria Nicoletta Rusconi, Milano
    Photo by Luigi Acerra