Barbara Ghidini

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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PARTE I – EL CUERPO Y LA MENTE

“SUCEDE Y PUEDE PASAR DESAPERCIBIDO”

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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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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.

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