2015: The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day
February 6th to April 12th, 2015
Venice, Casa dei Tre Oci, Giudecca 44
production of the Photographic Club La Gondola ©
The title of a successful James Ivory film provides the exhibition pathway, which leads through several fields of research. The first and perhaps the most important concerns personal memory, made up not of the salient events of a life but of the small details, marginal things, the reverberations of everyday actions that by being turned into photos take on another, symbolic value open to several meanings.
It is not a question of recording the visual diary of a day (as the title may suggest) but giving consistency to the details of one’s own experience, whether recent or long ago. A kind of personal, profound evocation in which to make the observer a participant. Another possible reading is as a paraphrase of the transience of life and the absence of real values of reference in contemporary society; human products are taken into consideration, with the aim of capturing the breakdown and decay they undergo through use, the action of time and their subsequent abandon, which often gives rise to new evidence dense with unexpected meanings. But that is not all; the man-made alterations of the land and the unstoppable advance of human settlements temporarily or permanently alter situations and environments long seen as unchangeable. The Gondola photographers dwell on these changes without accentuating the reasons for the intervention but, by simple recognition of what has happened, direct or better stimulate reflection, whatever this may be.
Photographs on show by Fabrizio Uliana:
Belo Horizonte, July 8, 2014
Semifinal World Cup: Brazil 1 Germany 7
pigment print on paper Epson Enhanced Mate poster Board di F. Vitturi-Venezia: cm 60 x 70
The Remains of the Day …
“He argued that for a large number of people the evening is the best part of the day, the part they looked forward to with the most pleasure”
from “The remains of the day”of Kazuo Ischiguro
12 Fujifilm instant prints, film: cm 6.2 x 4.6 ; all mounted on black passepartout: cm 17 x 90
© Fabrizio Uliana, 2015
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Exhibition on the website of the “La Gondola” Photographic Circle
