Paola Nasini
“encounters” – Fotografie
Ausstellungseröffnung am
Donnerstag, 24. März 2011 um 19:00Uhr
Ausstellungsdauer :
24.März bis 8. April 2011
Diese Ausstellung läuft parallel zur
5. TRIENNALE DER PHOTOGRAPHIE Hamburg,
die vom 1. bis zum 6. April 2011 zum fünften Mal das Zentrum der Fotografie in Deutschland wird – unter dem Motto “Wechselspiel. Foto-Film-Foto”!
“encounters”
Im Arbeitsumfeld Film gelingt es der Produzentin Paola Nasini in ihren Fotografien, Menschen zu dokumentieren, die sich ohne Scheu und Vorbehalte vor der Kamera bewegen.
Menschen, die uns direkt und ohne Pathos anschauen; Begegnungen, die uns herausfordern; die deutlich ihr soziales Umfeld, ihre Existenz beschreiben.
Augenblicke dramatischer Intensität, Spannung ohne Inszenierung – wunderbar ausdrucksstark!
“the last supper”, milan 2009
Paola Nasini
“encounters”
Photos of human faces, yet not psychological portraits. Apparently similar, substantially unique. Actually, it seems that there is something unmentioned, but persistent connecting these images; and the fundamental question, the induced quest for a relation intrigues us, even though we suspect that its individuation is not immediate.
Pieces of complex and troubled vital itineraries, these faces are all but unequivocal. At first sight, they seem icons of marginalization, descriptions of existential defeats… maybe some of them could represent the path of a failure or a strenuous resistance to extinction.
Nevertheless, I think that Paola Nasini’s goal is different, that her aspiration is to go beyond these first immediate sensations. As a whole, her photos trace an evolution which is certainly not progressive since her subjects are visibly diversified, while the experiences to which they refer are totally heterogeneous: different geographical sites, different social conditions, many ethnic groups…
One could say that they weave an active web of meanings, ideally defining the non linear graph, the rhizomatic structure of a recognizable universal human identity.
A conjecturable ideal-typical destiny that, and I insist – you must not read this process in a strictly chronological way- goes from a life lived on the margins (the “margin” can be physical or metaphorical), to the conquest of a position (the moment in which individual world becomes strongly affirmative), to the diversity of relations (and here the subject is thrown in the world of interactions with others).
The description of these existential parcels is naturally variegated and dissimilar, and the photos are a clever recording of it: the diligence they boast consists in their intrinsic capability to convey in an instant all the burden of the past, the dramatical intensity of the present, the sustained projection – notwithstanding reality- towards a conflictual future, never at peace or simply gratifying.
And, nevertheless, in most despairing photos, the diachronic tension is never totally cancelled and is essential because it is vital.
In this sense, I think, they are marvellously expressive.
Antonio Pizza
10. January 2011, 14:45 Uhr