honorable mention
Mariangela Gallo united kingdom
title
Windows
With this project I’m trying to understand how the oil painting, such an ancient and noble form of arts, interacts with photography, possibly the youngest of all arts. By exploring this interaction I create the images I have in my mind and I can actually see the thick paint becoming part of the photo while it dries out.
The photos that I am presenting today have been printed, then painted using oil paints and photographed again.
In this series I focused on the eyes which everyone says are the windows to the soul. So I asked myself ‘What if we could actually see from those windows? What would come out? What could enter?’
An individual’s sensory perception is completely their own and the way you perceive things may be completely different from the way I perceive things. Then emotions come into play, and the only possibility seems that’s we are all living multiple realities.
By combining photography and painting I try to visualize these multiple realities: photography keeps me connected to the material world, while painting allows me to investigate perception and imagination by giving a form to things invisible to the eye.
Most things of value in our lives are invisible, and how can we define them as ‘real’ if we can’t see them? And how can photography capture them? How often what you cannot see is more important than what you can see?
Photography is based on what our eyes can see. Does this mean that there are things a photo cannot show?
Perhaps reality and imagination aren’t opposite concept, but imagination can help us see what reality hides behind the curtains of visual perception.
In the same way, when painting and photography work together, imagination can penetrate reality allowing us to see what before we could only feel or imagine.
I hope with my work made of photography and paint, to show something invisible. We are made of what we feel and maybe sometimes we need to see the invisible to remind ourselves that what makes our lives worth living can’t be seen with the eyes.
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entry description
I've always loved photography and art history so almost naturally I’ve started to see paintings in my photographs and photographs in the paintings.With this project I’m trying to understand how the oil painting, such an ancient and noble form of arts, interacts with photography, possibly the youngest of all arts. By exploring this interaction I create the images I have in my mind and I can actually see the thick paint becoming part of the photo while it dries out.
The photos that I am presenting today have been printed, then painted using oil paints and photographed again.
In this series I focused on the eyes which everyone says are the windows to the soul. So I asked myself ‘What if we could actually see from those windows? What would come out? What could enter?’
about the photographer
We perceive this world through our senses. We depend on them to tell us the truth, we believe in what we see, hear, smell, touch, taste, but do we ever question whether our senses, like a photograph, are being manipulated? We are emotional beings; our senses are volatile and controlled by our emotions. How can we trust them to tell us what is real?An individual’s sensory perception is completely their own and the way you perceive things may be completely different from the way I perceive things. Then emotions come into play, and the only possibility seems that’s we are all living multiple realities.
By combining photography and painting I try to visualize these multiple realities: photography keeps me connected to the material world, while painting allows me to investigate perception and imagination by giving a form to things invisible to the eye.
Most things of value in our lives are invisible, and how can we define them as ‘real’ if we can’t see them? And how can photography capture them? How often what you cannot see is more important than what you can see?
Photography is based on what our eyes can see. Does this mean that there are things a photo cannot show?
Perhaps reality and imagination aren’t opposite concept, but imagination can help us see what reality hides behind the curtains of visual perception.
In the same way, when painting and photography work together, imagination can penetrate reality allowing us to see what before we could only feel or imagine.
I hope with my work made of photography and paint, to show something invisible. We are made of what we feel and maybe sometimes we need to see the invisible to remind ourselves that what makes our lives worth living can’t be seen with the eyes.
back to gallery