- Fotografie
Sindoni. An interrupted frequency.
Elisa Galelli
Fr., 27.06. 19:00 - So., 29.06. 19:00
Fr., 27.06. 19:00 - So., 29.06. 19:00
This photographic project is a kind of love letter to the human body and at the same time the trial to bring it to a more abstract and divine existence level. Is not just one of the many representations of the human body but is a fractured and dismantled way to watch it and see how the outward appearance comes out after the soul of its owner.
The muscles, the signs, every scar tell the story of this body..but what do we know watching it? What kind of philosophical speculation can we do? And where are we going to find a special connection with this “others” body?. It´s something we can live and experienced when we dance, when we have sex with someone.. the body is fractured in many pieces, coming together, giving us a final image of all we had experienced.. something we can´t really tell or describe.
It is a series of Cyanotype prints of photos of different people, different bodies or parts of it, which I do assembly as to purpose another view of it. Proportions stays the same but something looks different, embracing our ability as humans to interpretate what we see and reconnect it to something we know, even it doesn’t´t look exactly like the real one, creating a moment of misunderstanding between what we see and what we perceive.
This aesthetic moment of visual “interrupted frequency” helps to create a sublimation of the humanity of these bodies, an expression of holiness, a spiritual value to them.
The name I gave to this Project is “Sindoni”, from the sacred Shroud of Turin (in Italian “Sindone”) for its being a trace of a body, a faraway reproduction of a person.
What I´m trying to express with my cyanotypes is the same achievement of holiness and acceptance for the everyones body: any body should be holy to itself.
The muscles, the signs, every scar tell the story of this body..but what do we know watching it? What kind of philosophical speculation can we do? And where are we going to find a special connection with this “others” body?. It´s something we can live and experienced when we dance, when we have sex with someone.. the body is fractured in many pieces, coming together, giving us a final image of all we had experienced.. something we can´t really tell or describe.
It is a series of Cyanotype prints of photos of different people, different bodies or parts of it, which I do assembly as to purpose another view of it. Proportions stays the same but something looks different, embracing our ability as humans to interpretate what we see and reconnect it to something we know, even it doesn’t´t look exactly like the real one, creating a moment of misunderstanding between what we see and what we perceive.
This aesthetic moment of visual “interrupted frequency” helps to create a sublimation of the humanity of these bodies, an expression of holiness, a spiritual value to them.
The name I gave to this Project is “Sindoni”, from the sacred Shroud of Turin (in Italian “Sindone”) for its being a trace of a body, a faraway reproduction of a person.
What I´m trying to express with my cyanotypes is the same achievement of holiness and acceptance for the everyones body: any body should be holy to itself.
Kurz-Bio
Elisa Galelli
Elisa Galelli, born in Italy in 1979, based in Berlin since
2009. Dealing with photography, especially analog photography,
since 2006. Educated in Italy as a professional restorer of
wall paintings and stone material, she blended her passion for
ancient techniques and traditional visual art with photography
through the very pictorial technique of the Cyanotype.
After completing her Bachelor in Art History at the University
of Parma, Elisa moved to Berlin working in early age art
education and at the same time developing different projects
connected with analog photography, in collaboration with
international artists.
Since 2020 she focuses on the historical alternative
photographic process of the Cyanotype creating numerous
variation of the classic monochrome blue-toned pictures.
2009. Dealing with photography, especially analog photography,
since 2006. Educated in Italy as a professional restorer of
wall paintings and stone material, she blended her passion for
ancient techniques and traditional visual art with photography
through the very pictorial technique of the Cyanotype.
After completing her Bachelor in Art History at the University
of Parma, Elisa moved to Berlin working in early age art
education and at the same time developing different projects
connected with analog photography, in collaboration with
international artists.
Since 2020 she focuses on the historical alternative
photographic process of the Cyanotype creating numerous
variation of the classic monochrome blue-toned pictures.