Giovane Fotografia Italiana #08
Curated by Ilaria Campioli and Daniele De Luigi
We can see not only with our eyes.
Imagination is the ability providing men to see images in their mind and is closely related to memory: it is therefore based on reality, and its ability to generate visions from experience. However, explorable realities have increased and, consequently, languages and narrative modalities have taken on a greater variety of forms.
In common language fantasy is opposed to truth, sometimes it is even considered a deception and condemned as an escape from reality and responsibilities.
Yet without imagination it is impossible to fully understand what is real. Imagination allows us to complete the mosaic-like reality, breaking down and reassembling information and knowledge.
Although it was created to faithfully reproduce the observable reality, photography can take part in cognitive processes: it can both represent the visible and the reality with imagination. Photography can reconstruct what is hidden or out of reach; it can reconstruct the complexity from fragments; it can rebuild the past. Photography can also contribute to reconstructing an idea of future for the world.
The Young Italian Photography project invites artists to present their works that embody this militant approach in the relationship between photography and imagination.