Barbara Ghidini
VISUAL ARTIST
RELITTI LUMINOSI
2024 – Luminous Wrecks
Chemigrams: Experimental analog photography on silver gelatin paper
Edition: Limited edition of 7 + 2 artist proofs
Fine art pigment print on cotton paper 30X40
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These images operate on the boundary between abstraction and physical sedimentation: the photographic emulsion becomes living matter, where colour and decomposition generate almost archetypal forms.
Gold, oxidised red and black evoke processes of combustion and rebirth, suggesting a visual language close to informal painting or the alchemy of metals.
A spontaneous chemical landscape where light and matter dissolve into each other.
Gold, oxidised red and black evoke processes of combustion and rebirth, suggesting a visual language close to informal painting or the alchemy of metals.
A spontaneous chemical landscape where light and matter dissolve into each other.
The image captures the unpredictable beauty of oxidation, sediment, and time — an inner topography born from alchemical transformation.
Part of an ongoing exploration into the autonomy of photographic materials.
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Vaso Alchemico II – L’Ingovernabile
2023 – Alchemical Vessel II – The Ungovernable
Experimental analog photography / chemigram process on photosensitive material
Edition: Limited edition of 7 + 2 artist proofs
Fine art pigment print on cotton paper 30X40
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“Viendo un relámpago, quienquiera que no entienda es admirable.” – Matsu Bashō
Una meditación poética sobre la vasija alquímica como el recipiente que contiene las imagenes que me ayudan a acercarme al concepto de ingobernabilidad de los eventos de la vida.
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Alchemical Vessel II – The Ungovernable explores the fragile balance between control and transformation, intention and accident.
Through a process of direct chemical manipulation on photosensitive surfaces, the artist embraces unpredictability as a generative force.
Each image is a living reaction — light, matter, and time merging into forms that evoke both the organic and the cosmic.
The “vessel” functions as a symbolic container: a site of metamorphosis where substances dissolve, recompose, and give birth to new visual states.
My work transforms photography into an alchemical act — an unpredictable dialogue between the my gesture and the autonomy of material.
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