Is there only one way to understand a photograph? Hyper-reality as a trend that emphasizes the medium's ability to express something beyond the superficial appearance of things, capable of opening new dimensions of reality. It speaks not just of an isolated image or text but of attitude and process, where every aspect of space holds a potential meaning to be filled.

But how does meaning reach the image? Where does sense end, and simultaneously, what lies beyond? The project's intent lies in highlighting how the figure of the photographer can be considered a "secondary cause" of image creation. Together, we are writing a metalanguage—me, the medium, and the spectator. A reflection on what we leave behind, on what we decide not to see, and on how unconscious the process is by which we define an interesting or uninteresting perspective. The images in this project are inevitably ephemeral, held together only by their consequentiality, redundant, almost annoying. Images not yet recorded, which haven't had time to be absorbed, translations of moments we'll never see again. It's anti-photography, a denial of its own status. A triumph of technological automatism. Absolute freedom of interpretation.

ISIA U 2023

Graphic designer
Chiara Rebolino

Photographer
Chiara Rebolino

Supervisor
Leonardo Sonnoli