To a Place I can't Pronounce

  • Man with mask (2011)
  • Gelatin silver print
  • 20 x 20 cm
  • __and his neck #1 (2011)
  • Gelatin silver print
  • 20 x 20 cm
  • __and his neck #2 (2011)
  • Gelatin silver print
  • 50 x 50 cm
  • Reaching (2011)
  • Gelatin silver print
  • 40 x 50 cm (Oval)
  • Foeme (2011)
  • Gelatin silver print
  • 20 x 20 cm
  • Bug Eater (2011)
  • Gelatin silver print
  • 20 x 20 cm
  • Beaten (2011)
  • Gelatin silver print
  • 20 x 20 cm
  • Appeal (2011)
  • Gelatin silver print
  • 20 x 20 cm
  • Mojo (2011)
  • Gelatin silver print
  • 50 x 50 cm

A place that I can't pronounce is the place that I want to be. The place that I can't pronounce is where I am. How did I get there? Was I drifting or did I fall asleep and miss my stop? I can't remember anymore. I know it was a journey on a train of associations, and the persistent disillusion to be what I am not, became a fixation.
And again I found wisdom in little words, "to find what I've forgotten, you say; for the idea of myself, shall not enfold me"*.

And again I thought of photographs as minor interventions to go beyond image and the idea of you - as me.

While creating a body of work that links photography and performance together, To a Place I can't Pronounce questions the notion of selfhood in relation to its surroundings and language.
The images are conceived as annotations of ideas that comment on the way people interact with each other and the way we look at ourselves and identify with the other.

*Galuzzi Claudio, La Pianura Dentro