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| I took the photographs presented in this solo exhibition while
exploring the pavilions of the 50th Venice Biennial of Contemporary
Art, without any pre-existing project or intention. The crossing of the rooms, the continuity of the vision and the concentration necessary for a synthesis have been the hallmarks of my work; and the innate obligation to photography, to its just two dimensions, have had the weight and the relief of a compulsion to order and of the search for an immediately emotive efficacy in places where, conversely, videos refer to their playing out, installations to their traversability and television screens to their unstable surface a dilated sense where everything tends toward narration, toward literature. These visual arts are no longer visual, nothing exists any longer in and of itself; rather, for both the artist and for the spectator time and motion are as indispensable as listening and attention are for the composer. It is an elegy of the present, of the momentary, of the here and now and of "representation" because to enjoy this art one has to enter, take one's place and, essentially, look on. I have simply attempted to grasp the diverse intentions, conferring upon each image the indispensable tension required for it to stand independently of time, of place, and of the totality of the space to which it belongs, because photographs have just one single form, emit just one single note, live the time of a glance and are as evanescent as a phantom, an apparition. Michele Alassio |
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