orchiDEADs

The "orchiDEADs" project stems from the artist's researches in the direct analogue photography field and in the transparent materials properties, as their "reaction" to letting themselves be crossed, crushed, sometimes dissected by light. The starting point was to have taken a flower as a specimen of observation
from the artist's personal herbarium, and having verified its "weight" to let itself be permeated by the intense light of the photographic projector, in darkroom, light that cancels the color leaving the silver the possibility to deposit and create the infinite chasing of whites and grays. Structures and textures have emerged in all their power of abstraction. In the complete installation the 6 pieces juxtaposed produce a sort of "discourse" each one carrying their properties and relationships with the mater lux (mater, mother and matter) to the test bench. We find translucent, free and colored pieces or completely opaque and heavy objects which emanate and therefore contain white light colored by reflection, shaded drawings of a steel wire, tanned animal skins, prints on paper or wood with silverprint or melted plastic colors to rebuild the same profile: a dead orchid that gives us its immortal, sensual, beauty.