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Sedimenti

il_pelle — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 10:39:26 +0000

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

From the depths of the paper,

the image rises like sediment from a vanished sea.

Each stain breathes — slow, mineral, ancestral.

Between corrosion and birth,

the matter whispers its own becoming.

The series Sediments was born from the desire to listen to photographic matter in its slowest breath.

In these chemigrams, gesture withdraws to make space for reaction — for the secret dialogue between emulsion, light, and time.

The images emerge like organic remnants, geological fragments, traces of invisible processes: they do not depict, they reveal.

Color becomes earthy — brown, gold, copper — conveying a sense of return to origin, to a ground still warm with transformation.

Each surface is an alchemical site where dissolution gives birth to new forms, where accident becomes language.

Sediments is a meditation on impermanence and the memory of matter: what remains after the passage of time, what time itself leaves as a trace of life.

Part of an ongoing exploration into the autonomy of silver paper material.

Relitti Luminosi

il_pelle — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 10:41:25 +0000

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

A series of direct interventions on photosensitive paper where light and chemistry generate spontaneous forms — wrecks of images born from the dialogue between time and matter.

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.

Part of an ongoing exploration into the autonomy of silver paper material.

Vaso Alchemico

il_pelle — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:38:14 +0000

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

Alchemical Vessel explores the fragile balance between control and transformation, intention and accident.

Through a process of direct chemical manipulation on photosensitive surfaces, I embrace 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.

Part of an ongoing exploration into the autonomy of silver paper material.

CASA_le immagini che abito

il_pelle — Wed, 04 May 2022 07:06:55 +0000

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

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.

puntos de metamorfosis

más allá de la mente _ a través del juego

mirando hacia adentro _ la danza familiar

fuera del cuerpo _ ser la montaña

ángel mi guardián ilumíname

Checkers. What goes up?

il_pelle — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 12:23:30 +0000

2020-2021 – Checkers. What goes up?

Analog black and white photography, silver gelatin print and intervention in the digital scanner.

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’.

CHECKERS

PARTE I – EL CUERPO Y LA MENTE

“SUCEDE Y PUEDE PASAR DESAPERCIBIDO”

PARTE II – ILUMINAR UN PENSAMIENTO

“VIVO UN PRESENTE QUE ME PERTENECE”

PARTE III – PROFUNDIDAD DE VISIÓN

“LA MUJER DUERME. SE HA SALIDO CON LA SUYA. YA NO DEBE MENTIR”

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.

Grafía Obscura

il_pelle — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 08:36:32 +0000

2020 – Grafía Obscura

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

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.

Self-Portraits _ Metamorphosis of the Negatives

il_pelle — Sat, 28 Sep 2019 07:17:46 +0000

2019. Self-Portraits _ Metamorphosis of the Negatives

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

“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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