Composite #4 (2016) Photography by Giordano Biondi

Different materials and textures form heterogeneous organisms, made from wrapping paper, cellophane, rags and cloth, elastic bands, plastic and string, among other things. A sort of zoological catalogue of things that speak a language of rustled, crumpled paper and cloth, of a meaning and a direction that is unknown. A collection is created and documented, from objects that have been gathered together to make enigmatic forms and then dispersed once scanned, only to be re-arranged into something else. Aggregation and dispersion underpin the whole series like laboratory experiments that generate and dissolve new life forms, contained within the petri dish of the scanner’s glass and express a universe of cryptic meaning.
These images convey a sense of either implosion or explosion of the elements that form these indefinite life-forms, that resemble organs, microscopic organisms, bacteria, underwater creatures or visions. They might be captured in the process of consolidation, tightly wound and in the process of engulfing themselves, or perhaps unraveling into single parts drifting away from each other. Rather than imitating pre-existing forms, these mysterious elements are in a constant process of generating themselves into something new, always indefinite, complete and incomplete at the same time. Floating in a vague three-dimensional space or in darkness, they can either live in abstraction or in real life, at a microscopic or macroscopic level. They might be clots of formations of thought or dream, or growths and mutations within a physical body. They are long gone in physical reality; the scrap material that gathered to give them shape thrown away and dissolved in the world. They float impassive and silent in the formaldehyde image, testament to either extinct thoughts or living forms.

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