To me the analogue film is a material support, a tangible proof of reality: the image formed in my films is unique and unitary. The parts of reality are assembled during the shooting in the same time they are impressed on the film. The analogue film, as a proof of what happens in the world, is used to reveal invisible sides of the reality, through the use of double and multi exposures on the same frame. As Lana Wachowski's said "this world that we imagine in this room may be used to gain access to other rooms, to other worlds, previously unimaginable". To me, analogue photography is the way to gain access to these worlds, is what I take with me during the exploration of these worlds.
This image is part of a bigger series of approximatively 40 pictures around the theme of the relationship between our inner mental image of ourselves and our tangible appearance. The proprioceptive processes that lead to the formation of our mental image of ourselves follow complex paths, not always giving back to the person a coherent perception of himself, in harmony with our outer appearance. This series starts from the need to explore my own proprioceptive paths, trying to give a name to the conflicts that make me feel my outside layer as a different, stranger person.
Exploring the big amount of introjected notions, being aware that the assimilation of different external elements lead to a non-organic and layered ideal image of our appearance, all of this gives the possibility to perceive ourselves in different ways, materials and state of matter. If the formed image does not harmonize with our material status of bone and flesh, one can perceive himself through every kind of matter.
This is why we can blend our boundaries, dissolving into gypsum, being a
"thing", a bust on a table, lack of a real useful function, far from
every coherent context, and then coming back to a more "human"
status.
