
Light Exercises for the Spirit
- Publisher
- Witty Books
- Year
- 2026
- ISBN
- 9791280177704
- Specifications
- Hardcover
24 x 30 cm
112 pages
Editing and art direction by Tommaso Parrillo
Graphic design by Ilaria Miotto
Light Exercises for the Spirit brings together photographs made between 2016 and 2025. Rather than being conceived as a single project, the work developed gradually through a number of distinct sequences made over nearly a decade. Moving between family photographs, portraits, landscapes and everyday observations, the book unfolds through association rather than chronology. Images echo across sequences, places, years and emotional states: domestic interiors sit alongside quiet landscapes, moments of intimacy dissolve into absence, and ordinary gestures acquire new significance through their proximity to one another. The book grew out of a need to process the events that shaped these years, and the ways they altered the author's understanding of time, intimacy and home. Approached with quiet curiosity, the photographs became a way of remaining with these experiences without reducing them to a single meaning. Neither memoir nor documentary, the book unfolds through the fragmented logic of memory, where sorrow and hope, closeness and distance, coexist rather than resolve.