Barbara Ghidini
Light into Matter
Sedimenti
2025 – Sediments
Chemigrams: Experimental analog photography on silver gelatin paper
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From the depths of the paper,
the image rises like sediment from a vanished sea.
Each stain breathes — slow, mineral, ancestral.
Between corrosion and birth,
the matter whispers its own becoming.
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The series Sediments was born from the desire to listen to photographic matter in its slowest breath.
In these chemigrams, gesture withdraws to make space for reaction — for the secret dialogue between emulsion, light, and time.
The images emerge like organic remnants, geological fragments, traces of invisible processes: they do not depict, they reveal.
Color becomes earthy — brown, gold, copper — conveying a sense of return to origin, to a ground still warm with transformation.
Each surface is an alchemical site where dissolution gives birth to new forms, where accident becomes language.
Sediments is a meditation on impermanence and the memory of matter: what remains after the passage of time, what time itself leaves as a trace of life.
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