Grado Zero
I wanted to start from the concept of Zero in portrait, to get to a self-revelation
of the subject who, rather than being passively portrayed, takes actively part
in the creative process.
I overturn the creative concept that the photographer
is the subject who acts on the passive object of the picture.
This time, the objectives is the passive element, still on its tripod, only able to
record the passage of time.
But if zero does not exist (according to the DeSaussurian algorithm there are
a signifier and signified, but Zero misses the sign, the "object" in the concept
of zero),
I should represent a body that is not there but that at the same time
must inevitably appear, not to lose the concept of portrait itself.
Here, therefore, the body is entirely hidden, though still abstractly present, its
extremities helping it to emerge.
There are approximately 170 meters of rope hiding a female body who reveals
itself to the objective.
This revelation is never totally fulfilled, in spite of
the subject’s wishing it, as one side remains inevitably cut-off from the possibility
of objective knowledge.
