Barbara Ghidini » experiments http://www.barbaraghidini.info Light into Matter Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:49:06 +0000 it-IT hourly 1 Grafía Obscura http://www.barbaraghidini.info/archives/4945 http://www.barbaraghidini.info/archives/4945#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2020 08:36:32 +0000 il_pelle http://www.barbaraghidini.info/?p=4945 2020 – Grafía Obscura

Analog photograph, silver gelatin print made with a pinhole camera through the fotofinish technique. 

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Grafia Obscura is a visual and temporal exploration of the self through the fotofinish technique, reimagined from Paolo Gioli’s experiments.

Each image becomes a trace of motion and dissolution, where light writes and erases the body in the same gesture.

The work reflects on perception and transformation — a poetic act in which the image is no longer representation, but pure process, an unstable handwriting of existence.

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]]> http://www.barbaraghidini.info/archives/4945/feed 0 Self-Portraits _ Metamorphosis of the Negatives http://www.barbaraghidini.info/archives/3485 http://www.barbaraghidini.info/archives/3485#comments Sat, 28 Sep 2019 07:17:46 +0000 il_pelle http://www.barbaraghidini.info/?p=3485 2019. Self-Portraits _ Metamorphosis of the Negatives

Analog photomontage, silver salt gelatin. Taken with my camera minutera.

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“In that stillness, I wanted to involve my whole body and let myself be carried away by some movement.
The encounter with the other, I recognise their fragmentation and make it my own.”

‘Self-Portraits, Metamorphosis of the Negatives’ is a project that was born during a post-accident recovery and brings together chemical explorations carried out inside my camera minutera using some negatives of people I have photographed over the years.

It all begins by choosing a negative from the box in which they are stored, reproducing the positive and then letting things happen. Between the passages from negative to positive, I intervene with double exposure, the infiltration of light inside the camera, the deposition of silver on photographic paper, the superimposition of objects, etc.

The works I propose are based on a balance between realism and its deconstruction to reveal the darker side of life by exploring emotions such as sadness, melancholy, loss, pain, and loneliness.
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