Veronica Della Porta: Memory owns nothing
On display with her first personal exhibit at MAC Maja Arte Contemporanea, Veronica Della Porta is presenting ten works completed between 2009 and 2017.
In the critical text that accompanies the show, Nora Iosia writes: "Della Porta's second personal exhibit is a collection of ten images, ten photographs displayed here on a metal support. Spanning from 2009 to 2017, they trace the evolution of the artist's voice: her gaze becomes happily decisive; aided by the immediacy and ease of the camera, it finds its narrative potential. It plays with memory, calling to mind a single fleeting instant, so as to capture it as it vanishes, thus rendering time and memory themselves central in the image.
Della Porta is not a photographer in a traditional sense. Rather, she chooses photography as a suggestive and poetic medium, discarding its strict technical requirements and ignoring its repeatability. She prints each images only once, recreating the unicity of paintings. The paper then becomes a makeshift canvas, reproducing the image pictorially, and liberating it from the weight of matter and the tensions of technical precision.
The large size of the images exalts the spaces portrayed, expanding their details, and enhancing the void between them as an emotional echo might. The images thus created beckon to a space beyond the print, an imaginative and evanescent counterpoint to the instant captured, which, in turn, becomes the reality of the 'here and now', an immobile moment in time. They resemble visual annotations following the photographer's gaze as it seeks private spaces that narrate secret, untold stories, or details that seduce the eye for a moment before time engulfs them. The tragedy of becoming unfolds through these pictures."
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On display with her first personal exhibit at MAC Maja Arte Contemporanea, Veronica Della Porta is presenting ten works completed between 2009 and 2017.
In the critical text that accompanies the show, Nora Iosia writes: "Della Porta's second personal exhibit is a collection of ten images, ten photographs displayed here on a metal support. Spanning from 2009 to 2017, they trace the evolution of the artist's voice: her gaze becomes happily decisive; aided by the immediacy and ease of the camera, it finds its narrative potential. It plays with memory, calling to mind a single fleeting instant, so as to capture it as it vanishes, thus rendering time and memory themselves central in the image.
Della Porta is not a photographer in a traditional sense. Rather, she chooses photography as a suggestive and poetic medium, discarding its strict technical requirements and ignoring its repeatability. She prints each images only once, recreating the unicity of paintings. The paper then becomes a makeshift canvas, reproducing the image pictorially, and liberating it from the weight of matter and the tensions of technical precision.
The large size of the images exalts the spaces portrayed, expanding their details, and enhancing the void between them as an emotional echo might. The images thus created beckon to a space beyond the print, an imaginative and evanescent counterpoint to the instant captured, which, in turn, becomes the reality of the 'here and now', an immobile moment in time. They resemble visual annotations following the photographer's gaze as it seeks private spaces that narrate secret, untold stories, or details that seduce the eye for a moment before time engulfs them. The tragedy of becoming unfolds through these pictures."
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