LUCE DEI MIE OCCHI
Light of my eyes
On a bright white background a naked body of woman stands out of the light like something both ethereal and carnal, this is how the artful and symbolic play between the photographic image and its real message arises. In the chosen image nothing there is accidental; full red lips, long straight raven black hair, a mole above the lips, snow-white complexion marked by provocative tattoos. This woman is an actual “femme fatale”, a hyper-contemporary Valentina (the comics heroine by Crepax) depicting a new sensuality tremendously up-to-date in its energy; it’s a “female” struggling for her due independence without giving up the womanly drive held by every woman. She is slender yet strong as “ in the new contemporaneity all have to be forcefully beautiful and that rounded figure is the embodiment of the idea of the achievement of a victory over life”(as told by the author). How does the actual message do in this aesthetic play? As suggested by the words of the common saying “the light of my eyes” (in English the equivalent would be “the apple of my eyes”) the symbol embodying the message becomes a neon light placed on the gaze not to light it up as one would expect, rather to hide it; since where the light gets, there the need to look, to peer at or to follow ends. Suffice is to let yourself be lead by that intimate lightning which everyone of us can reach. The light-box is undoubtedly the stylistic cipher of the author, however in this one for the first time the light is being exploited as a unique and undisputed protagonist both in the form and in the contents, so stating the fooling ambition and determination to create a self-directed aesthetics lasting in time.
Valeria Gatti
On a bright white background a naked body of woman stands out of the light like something both ethereal and carnal, this is how the artful and symbolic play between the photographic image and its real message arises. In the chosen image nothing there is accidental; full red lips, long straight raven black hair, a mole above the lips, snow-white complexion marked by provocative tattoos. This woman is an actual “femme fatale”, a hyper-contemporary Valentina (the comics heroine by Crepax) depicting a new sensuality tremendously up-to-date in its energy; it’s a “female” struggling for her due independence without giving up the womanly drive held by every woman. She is slender yet strong as “ in the new contemporaneity all have to be forcefully beautiful and that rounded figure is the embodiment of the idea of the achievement of a victory over life”(as told by the author). How does the actual message do in this aesthetic play? As suggested by the words of the common saying “the light of my eyes” (in English the equivalent would be “the apple of my eyes”) the symbol embodying the message becomes a neon light placed on the gaze not to light it up as one would expect, rather to hide it; since where the light gets, there the need to look, to peer at or to follow ends. Suffice is to let yourself be lead by that intimate lightning which everyone of us can reach. The light-box is undoubtedly the stylistic cipher of the author, however in this one for the first time the light is being exploited as a unique and undisputed protagonist both in the form and in the contents, so stating the fooling ambition and determination to create a self-directed aesthetics lasting in time.
Valeria Gatti
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