Elena Lovisolo
Possono gli occhi
2024/2025
Solo ehibition
Exhibited at Ubik Varese and The Seed Milano
What happens when you take a photograph? Can the eyes perceive something other than the image they frame? Can they perceive the potential of an image? The work does not seek to answer these questions, but to investigate them through photographs that describe reality, while, at the same time, using analogical in-camera and off-camera techniques to distance themselves from it or even transform it. The exhibition narrates a gradual approach to the abstract, beginning with figurative images taken on small- and medium-format film, black-and-white or colour, expired or treated with a push-processing process. These are characterised by small or obvious elements - canonically considered errors - that place them in another, surreal dimension. It then continues with experimental techniques such as cyanotypes up to the manipulation and destruction of polaroids, emulsion lift and polaroid decay.