Barbara Ghidini
Light into Matter
CASA_le immagini che abito
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
-
- La Separación
-
- El Viaje
más allá de la mente _ a través del juego
-
- El Espejo
-
- El Mar
-
- La Misión
mirando hacia adentro _ la danza familiar
-
- Danza Familiar
-
- Danza Familiar
-
- Danza Familiar
-
- Sentir La Montaña
-
- Sentir La Montaña
-
- Sentir La Montaña
-
- Sentir La Montaña
-
- Guardián Ilumíname
-
- Guardián Ilumíname
-
- Guardián Ilumíname
-
- Guardián Ilumíname
-
- Guardián Ilumíname
Checkers. What goes up?
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”
-
- Playing with a New Vision
-
- New Eyes
-
- Into the Body
-
- Fictions of Power
_
PARTE II – ILUMINAR UN PENSAMIENTO
“VIVO UN PRESENTE QUE ME PERTENECE”
-
- Desire Escape
-
- Desire Escape 2222
-
- Desire Escape 222
-
- Desire Escape 22
-
- Desire Escape 22
-
- Desire Escape 22
-
- Desire Escape 22
_
PARTE III – PROFUNDIDAD DE VISIÓN
“LA MUJER DUERME. SE HA SALIDO CON LA SUYA. YA NO DEBE MENTIR”
-
- Playing with Light and Shadow
-
- Playing with Light and Shadow
-
- Playing with Light and Shadow
-
- Playing with Light and Shadow
_
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.