by Fabrizio Uliana

with texts by:
Carlo Chiapponi, photographer
Frédéric Cossutta, philosopher
Dominique Maingueneau, linguist

After the high waters that flooded Venice on November 17, 2019, I started taking photos of this magical place, far from any aesthetic cliché and the harmonious spectacle of its representations, to provoke a reflection on its future. Using just a smartphone, I tried to push its limits, where the shooting algorithms make the photos enigmatic, dreamlike, ironic, dynamic, tending to disorient, to provoke worry and confusion: to “see things as they do not exist”. Indeed, with a dynamic, circular and semi-circular movement, like a meditative gesture of Tai Chi, I created images far from reality, on the border between chaos and order, working on optical illusion, suggesting non-existent, deceptive depths, at the limits of hallucination.

For the purchase of the book
please send an email to:
fabrizio.uliana@gmail.com
Price: 40.00 EUR
shipping in Italy and Europe 15.00 euros
shipping in France 10.00 euros

ISBN number: 079-10-415-2146-3

Print run: 200 numbered copies signed by the author;
in each copy, a 13 by 18 cm photo

Finished printing in August 2023 in France
on ESCOURBIAC presses

Book format: 21.00 × 25.50 cm
Number of pages: 80
Inner paper
48 pages Printing: Four-color recto/verso
paper: SYMBOL TATAMI WHITE 150 g/m2
32 pages Printing: White recto/verso
paper: SIRIO COLOR Cherry 115 g/m2

Hardcover:
4-fold wraparound Sirio Color E20 Cherry 290 g/m2 paper
Screen printing with glossy UV varnish and white recto/verso