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Attilio Scimone -Photography as matter, light, and time
Mediterranean Sea
Completed research in preparation for exhibition and publication, 2019–2025
Mediterranean Sea is a completed project, currently being prepared for exhibition.
The Mediterranean is not represented as a view but as a field of light and suspension.
The horizon becomes a measure of time, a mental surface shaped by memory and silence.
Landscape, Matter, Presence
Collections of limited edition works by Attilio Scimone. The research unfolds as a sustained field of experimentation between matter and light, conceived for collecting and exhibition contexts. The majority of the works are realized as gelatin silver prints.
Female presences traverse an indeterminate landscape, reduced to a perceptual field and a mental condition.
Vintage Archive
Original photographic prints made before 2005.
Unique works and extremely limited editions.
Original photographic works produced before 2005.
Preserved as unique works or in extremely limited editions within the artist’s archive.
The photographic surface is incised, transforming the image into a material field.
Materia e Luce
Collezione 2002 - 2025
Photography is investigated as a field of tension between the density of matter and the temporality of light. Form is not given, but emerges as an experience of limit and perception.
My research considers photography as a material and perceptual practice, in which the image does not represent reality but interrogates the conditions of its appearance. I work exclusively with analog processes, entrusting the relationship between light, matter, time, and support with the generation of form.
Darkroom printing constitutes the final and decisive moment of the process, where the image acquires density, duration, and critical responsibility. Black and white is not an aesthetic choice but a necessity: a space of active memory in which subtraction makes visible what endures.
Each work emerges from long-term research and is conceived for slow, critical, and institutional reading. The images do not present themselves as closed statements, but as open structures, meant to be traversed over time.
Photography thus becomes a site of thought and tension, where matter retains light and time reveals itself as experience. Within this space, the image does not dissolve into the instant, but persists as a responsible form of vision.
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