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S O C I A L  N E T W O R K ?
Experiment about identities

with Cosimo Filippini
Presented at "Festival Fotografia Europea" 2011 - Reggio Emilia
at Atelier 2 Gobbi 3
curated by Agnese Miselli, with the collaboration of Corrado Piroddi
critical text by Nicolò Cecchella
supervision and video editing by Claudio Rojas

view the publication (ITA)

Social Network is the big question that these two photographers try to approach. They do this in opposition to a normal photographic project, by descending into the scene and becoming themselves the body and the matter of investigation. Each photographer will have to chase through the network the identity of the other without ever meeting him physically. They will meet at the inauguration day. Each of them will be at a time object of representation and producer of the image. All this path will be able to generate a complex self-portrait made ​​of many fragments from which they try to take an individual profile.
To photograph in the absence of a body, of a place where the subject may be, of time, of light on which calibrate the exposure, may give an idea of the difficulty of this project and at the same time delineate what are the guidelines that are at the base of the social network. But without doubt, this process of abstraction seems to offer also benefits to the interpreters photographers, it seems to give the ability to imagine the other freely, perhaps starting from those that can be the similarities and the correspondences between the characters of the two, thus beginning a mimetic path through which the imagined becomes the reference. [...]

Nicolò Cecchella, notes on the experiment

Personal narration of Cosimo Filippini, series of 10.

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