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2022/2023, RATIO 1/1,75, IMAGES GENERATED BY SCREEN CAPTURE

What role can photography play in our contemporary society? In a system saturated with images, where machines generate art and everyone is a photographer, how can true artistic experimentation still exist, without being swallowed by the endless visual vortex? And how can we speak of belonging, when our very existence is becoming increasingly fragile and ephemeral?

As Riccardo Falcinelli suggested, the future of visual experience will be marked by a pervasive, total immersion: a media environment as fluid and continuous as the mosaics of San Marco in Venice, where themes flow seamlessly one into another.

Within this scenario, the very notion of photography is transforming, moving beyond the boundaries of post-photography. Screenshot responds to this condition by attempting to build a barrier against the flood of images overwhelming reality, while questioning how technology reshapes our perception of place.

This is not the subversive act of a photographer, but the reflection of an artist who uses photography among other languages, investigating its potential to narrate the contemporary. Screens become both subject and medium, hosting layers of images, texts, icons, and videos that coexist in a single, simultaneous vision. Like any digital experience, contamination between codes gives rise to new narrative and perceptive forms.

Here, photography manifests itself through screenshots, non-photographs that capture the landscapes of our screens, revealing with unexpected sincerity the hidden fragments of our daily life. A place we belong to, and that, perhaps, belongs to us.