Vincenzo Fiore Marrese

Portfolio Entry

If you put photographic paper in the sun, it will darken, but there won’t be any images.

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Artwork Details

• Title:
  “ohne Bilder,”
• Year:
  2023;
• Medium (Type of Art):
  installation art, new-media art;
• Medium (Materials):
  paper box, photo sheets, metal foil, black ink, cement powder;
• Dimensions (International):
  350×100 centimetres;
• Dimensions (British and US):
  137.795×39.3701 inches;
• Venue:
  former courthouse, Kalbe (Milde), Germany;
• Setting:
  11. Internationaler Sommercampus, artist residency, Künstlerstadt Kalbe;

Establishing Context

If one places photo paper in the sun, it will darken but won't create any pictures. The title of this work means “without images”. I made the work by putting photo paper in the sun. But the title also alludes to a famous Western play depicting death as the end of life, when one is left “without nothing”. But even after death, you can remember someone through a photo. An image can fix a person’s identity, like a photo ID. The photo ID can affect how we perceive our age. I’m studying how society sorts people by age. Yet once our photo ID becomes blank, it makes any sorting impossible. I put the photo paper on a red carpet, which can highlight famous identities such as actors.