Barbara Ghidini
Light into Matter
H14 – Creating Expanded Cinema Performance
H14 is a collective formed by Barbara Ghidini and Antonio Bértolo, created in 2023 within the Crater Lab space, an association that has been promoting experimental and expanded film creation for 10 years.
It is a space where we continue to develop work focused on experimenting with film material to create performative proposals for Expanded Cinema.
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Our first performance is called ‘Morfologías Fluctuantes’ (Fluctuating Morphologies), with footage shot in a former industrial area of Barcelona (Las Tres Ximeneas) and in the Monegros desert. The special sound has been developped by our dear friend and artist Alfredo Costa Monteiro.
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This piece slowly expands into a triptych that, through pendulum movements, evokes not only a temporality without beginning or end, but also a state of transition.
This perpetual movement reveals traces of human activity in the form of post-industrial landscapes that did not survive the passage of time, carrying within them the omen of a change to come.
A change towards natural horizons that in their opposite rectilinear movements recalls the circularity of time, accentuated by the materiality and texture of the rocks that are a symbol of durability and permanence.
The sound, obtained with several oscillators connected to three photoelectric cells, adds very subtle sonic transformations, depending on each of these movements.
This device is used here in a way that does not disturb the fluidity of the images, thus creating a very intricate relationship between what is seen and what is heard.
And little by little thatmateriality is dissolving, finally becoming air.
Image
Barbara Ghidini
2 x 16mm NT projectors, zoom lenses, water, transparencies
Antonio Bértolo
2 x 16mm NT projectors, zoom lenses, image multipliers, filters, prisms, transparencies
Sound
Alfredo Costa Monteiro
oscillators, photoelectric cells, radios
Sedimenti
2025 – Sediments
Chemigrams: Experimental analog photography on silver gelatin paper
Fine art photography printed on Hahnemühle cotton paper
Dimensions: 30 × 40 cm
Edition: 1/7 + 2 A.P.
Signed and numbered on verso
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Relitti Luminosi
2024 – Luminous Wrecks
Chemigrams: Experimental analog photography on silver gelatin paper
Fine art photography printed on Hahnemühle cotton paper
Dimensions: 30 × 40 cm
Edition: 1/7 + 2 A.P.
Signed and numbered on verso
Each work is an alchemical sedimentation: traces of gold, red, and black emerge as remnants of a luminous metamorphosis.
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On the photosensitive paper, light and chemistry converse as opposing yet complementary forces.
By intervening directly on the surface, I allow the material to react, transform, and oxidise.
Each trace and colour is born from an unpredictable encounter — light wounds, time deposits, chemistry leaves behind fragments that seem to surface from a memory’s depth.
Gold, red, and black evoke combustion and rebirth: an inner geology where the image does not represent, but emerges.
Vaso Alchemico
2023 – Alchemical Vessel
Chemigrams: Experimental analog photography on silver gelatin paper
Fine art photography printed on Hahnemühle cotton paper
Dimensions: 30 × 40 cm
Edition: 1/7 + 2 A.P.
Signed and numbered on verso
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CASA_le immagini che abito
2022 - CASA – The Images I Inhabit
Analog black and white photography, silver gelatin print
Fine art photography printed on Hahnemühle cotton paper
Dimensions: 40 × 40 cm
Edition: 1/7 + 2 A.P.
Signed and numbered on verso
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CASA – The Images I Inhabit is an intimate journey through the inner landscapes of memory. Each image emerges like a fragment of dream — suspended between the familiar and the uncanny, between the body and the space that holds it.
Working with analog processes and the quiet tactility of black and white, I explore how domestic spaces become containers of time, where light, gesture, and texture recall both presence and absence.
The figures dissolve into their surroundings: bodies become furniture, fabrics, shadows. This act of merging reflects the slow sedimentation of identity — how our being is shaped by the places we once called home.
Through this visual archaeology of intimacy, I seek not nostalgia, but resonance — a way to inhabit memory as a living, breathing territory.
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puntos de metamorfosis
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- La Separación
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- El Viaje
más allá de la mente _ a través del juego
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- El Espejo
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- El Mar
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- La Misión
mirando hacia adentro _ la danza familiar
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- Danza Familiar
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- Danza Familiar
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- Danza Familiar
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- Sentir La Montaña
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- Sentir La Montaña
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- Sentir La Montaña
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- Sentir La Montaña
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Neutral Density Photography Awards
Self-Portraits
Project “Self Portraits from a Box of Negatives” has awarded 1st place and gold star medal in the 2021 ND Awards category People.
Please have a look to the selection here.
PX3 Prix de la Photographie de Paris
Self-Portraits
Project “Self-Portraits from a Box of Negatives” has awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Prix de la Photographie de Paris, category Fine Art.
Please have a look at the project here.
Fotografi itineranti viaggianti ed erranti
En el magazine Classic Camera Black & White de Febrero 2021
Homenaje a los fotógrafos minuteros juntos a un interesante reportaje al amigo Rosario Patané y su pasión por la química fotográfica y la street photography.
Aquí les dejo el artículo dedicado a los fotógrafos itinerantes.
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- Classic Camera
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- Black & White
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- Black & White
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- Black & White
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BOX CAMERA NOW
Nuevo libro de la Editorial Fraglich Publishing – de Lukas Birk
Box Camera NOW ofrece una visión única de una nueva generación de fotógrafos minuteros que trabajan en la calle y en estudios con cámaras principalmente caseras.
Estas herramientas rudimentarias siguen la historia de los fotógrafos callejeros que trabajaron en todo el mundo en parques y en las esquinas de las calles, creando recuerdos baratos y experiencias fotográficas por primera vez para el pueblo.
www.fraglich.com/product/box-camera-now/
Box Camera NOW incluye a 54 fotógrafos de 21 países de todo el mundo. Cada fotógrafo con su propio estilo y adaptación de la Box Camera. Cada uno con su propia habilidad única para convertir el papel foto sensible en un objeto memorable.
With images by: Adrien Tache, Alain Paris, Aurélien de Saint André, Barbara Ghidini, Benoit Capponi, Cássia Xavier & Gustavo Falqueiro, Charlotte Guey, Chen Zi Wua, Clément Marion, Conrado Pinamonti, Low CQ, Damien Gautier, Daniel Robinson, Diogo Baptista, Ferdows Faghir, Flo Gales, George Papageorgiou, Gianni De Gregorio, Guillaume Koessler, Hans Zeeldieb, Irwandi, M. Fajar Apriyanto & Ade Aulia Rahman, Iris Chauveau, Jean-Michel Delage, Jeffrey Lim, Jorge Luis , Joshua Carroll, Justine Montmarché & Sébastien Bergeron, Landry Dunand, Leicester lo-fi photography, Luis Duarte, Maikel Plasencia González, Malcolm Hutcheson,Marc Kairies, Marie Chaloyard, Mauricio Sapata, Mehdi Nédellec , Michaël Mosset, Mitsu Maeda & Sono Aida, Oliver Zenklusen, Radilson Carlos Gomes, Rodrigo Abd, Steffen Diemer & Hannah Schemel, Tess Saunders, Thibaut Piel, Valentine Riccardi
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Checkers. What goes up?
2020-2021 – Checkers. What goes up?
Analog black and white photography, silver gelatin print and intervention in the digital scanner.
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The photo sequences are inspired by the cinematic sequences of the film ‘Le Sang d’un Poète’ and Jean Cocteau’s book ‘La Difficulté d’Être’.
FREE TO CHOOSE THE FACES, SHAPES, GESTURES, TONES, ACTIONS AND PLACES THAT YOU LIKE, YOU CAN USE THEM TO COMPOSE A REALISTIC DOCUMENTARY OF UNREAL EVENTS. – from ‘Le Sang d’un Poète’.
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CHECKERS
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PARTE I – EL CUERPO Y LA MENTE
“SUCEDE Y PUEDE PASAR DESAPERCIBIDO”
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- Playing with a New Vision
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- New Eyes
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- Into the Body
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- Fictions of Power
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PARTE II – ILUMINAR UN PENSAMIENTO
“VIVO UN PRESENTE QUE ME PERTENECE”
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PARTE III – PROFUNDIDAD DE VISIÓN
“LA MUJER DUERME. SE HA SALIDO CON LA SUYA. YA NO DEBE MENTIR”
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- Playing with Light and Shadow
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- Playing with Light and Shadow
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- Playing with Light and Shadow
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- Playing with Light and Shadow
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In the series ‘Checkers. What goes up?’ private and external events converge on the surface of the image itself through a play of illusions and transparencies to tell the story of the escape from the limiting reality in which we are imprisoned and confined every day.
Checkers is a metaphor for our lives and, by their very nature, the pawns in checkers, humans, are forced to move within certain limits according to pre-established rules, often imposed or self-imposed.
In the story, photography is not only the medium that creates a perceived reality but, through its material physicality, that is, the analogue black and white photogram, it becomes the tangible tool that helps us to cross the boundaries of the queen, creating an ideal gateway to a new world and a new consciousness of being.
Broadening our gaze and expanding our knowledge to investigate our role in the world and seek our true identity as human beings.