Barbara Ghidini » oxidation http://www.barbaraghidini.info Light into Matter Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:49:06 +0000 it-IT hourly 1 Relitti Luminosi http://www.barbaraghidini.info/archives/5293 http://www.barbaraghidini.info/archives/5293#comments Mon, 27 Oct 2025 10:41:25 +0000 il_pelle http://www.barbaraghidini.info/?p=5293 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

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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.
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Wreck I Wreck II Wreck III Wreck IV Wreck V Wreck VI Wreck VII Wreck VIII Wreck IX Wreck X Wreck XI Wreck XII Wreck XIII Wreck XIV Wreck XV Wreck XVI
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