Barbara Ghidini

Self-Portraits _ Metamorphosis of the Negatives

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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