Exhibition
The exhibition Di/stanze, curated by Matteo Bergamini, collects 21 photographs by Luca Gilli selected from cycles of recent works entitled Incipit and Blank, dedicated respectively to the construction of the Holy See pavilion at Expo Milano 2015 (Incipit) and to the investigation of internal spaces under construction, closed environments and construction sites (Blank, 2008-2017). The corpus of the exhibition revolves around the concept of “pictoriality” that is discovered in both of Gilli’s series, formalized by the photographer using as subjects a series of components found in interiors under construction, where the excessive use of light modifies the observer’s perception by creating walls without end or corners, spaces without depth.
Gilli’s allusive photographs, exhibited at the Museo Diocesano, are placed well elsewhere with respect to the always lively and common perception of photography as a means of “representation”. They are evanescent images, far from a physical celebration, from carnality, on the border between the visible and invisible world, where the expedients of perspective are canceled in favor of a vision beyond the limit.
Gilli captures interiors that will be inhabited, fragments of “rooms” still far from their objectivity and their ultimate daily purpose, which we can understand, imagine and grasp – succeeding or not – only by attempting to cancel the gap between the transposed evidence and the original shot.
The initiative is carried out in collaboration with Paola Sosio Contemporary Art of Milan.
