SDM-NY-8172

In this new body of work the Milanese photographer’s exploration of public places such as the underground, railway platform shelters and libraries in different parts of the world focuses on the theme of reading and books as a signifier, an active and passive protagonist of an anthropological classification of things. In this series of black and white shots the books of readers spied on and captured by Giannobi’s lens are objects that dissolve, creating a painterly effect that tends towards abstraction and the rarefaction of the image. In her images the book, or musical score, or printed matter in the hands of a person taking a brief journey on public transport becomes a Hegelian sensitive shadow, in other words almost a work of art in itself, in so far as it is an object that goes beyond the visible plane, that enables us to perceive what lies beyond what is captured on film, beyond a pure retinal perception, offering sensations and emotions that are invisible but undoubtedly real.