Fotografie di Martina Cirese

Rubrica: Periscope
A cura di Claudio Composti
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2025 – 2015. Il lavoro nasce e si sviluppa senza una struttura prestabilita – simile a un organismo – e rispecchia l’imprevedibilità degli incontri che cattura. Fonde fotografia e disegni, testi e memorie. Genera un linguaggio visivo in continua metamorfosi: un progetto che prende forma fisica in venti quaderni d’artista, incarnando la natura interiore ed effimera della ricerca.

Attraverso spazi in cui libertà e trasgressione si intrecciano, è stata la macchina fotografica il mio strumento per esplorare i meccanismi del desiderio e i confini del corpo. Dopo dieci anni di viaggi attraverso l’Europa, sono tornata a Roma, per vivere di nuovo nella casa in cui sono nata, dove la mia fine e il mio inizio si confondono. Dai ‘Diari’ emerge così non solo un archivio fotografico, ma una materia viva in cui arte ed esperienza si dissolvono, e l’atto di vedere diventa inseparabile dal divenire.

An unexpected stimulus begets a novel mental state, this comes bracketed between two wavelengths—between the lowest and the highest; between the quiescence of physical stillness and the clamour of thought. Left Photo: Berlin 2/3/2018. Right Photo: Berlin 15/6/2016.
Frozen in the act, as these pictures lay, just like frozen in motion the observer behind the lens remained. Left Photo: Berlin 23/5/2019. Right Photo: Berlin 26/7/2015.
From the absence of an immediate answer, motionlessness resulted. Left Photo: Berlin 28/11/2015. Right Photo: Berlin 28/11/2015.
A state of absolute suspension; the zero wavelength of “silence”. The bracket was now opened[ Left Photo: Berlin 19/05/2016. Right Photo: Berlin 05/01/2017.
From the Dionysian chaos, the brain sought order, rapidly. Left Photo: Berlin 13/10/2018. Right Photo: Berlin 27/05/2015.
A noisy construction of neural bridges commenced, joining the new: “what is” to the old: “what used to be”. Left Photo: Berlin 5/10/2015. Right Photo: Berlin 24/03/2015.
Diari (2015-2025)
As the mind was now occupied by red, a colour which happens to be at our maximum perceivable wavelength. The bracket was now closed, ] Left Photo: Berlin 15/6/2016. Right Photo: Berlin 14/5/2015.
Definitions updated; new answers answered old questions, and new questions emerged. Left Photo: Berlin 16/09/2017. Right Photo: Berlin 27/05/2019.
Diari (2015-2025)
Sanguine blood…rushed in to fill up the thoughtful grey cells. Left Photo: Berlin 16/09/2017. Right Photo: Berlin 26/3/2016.
What was encountered by one curious eye is now a resulting alley between two mental constructions: the Old and the New.Trapped within these brackets are impressions of a period. Left Photo: Berlin 03/06/2019. Right Photo: Berlin 19/5/2016.
The sight of unconventional arrangements of human bodies, pressed for explanations. Left Photo: Berlin 17/04/2015. Right Photo: Berlin 01/08/2015.
Diari (2015-2025)