Mattia Balsamini, In Search of Appropriate Images

In Search of Appropriate Images

Mattia Balsamini

Publisher
Skinnerboox
Year
2021
ISBN
978-88-94895-42-1
Specifications
Hardcover with 2 blocks
19 x 26.5 cm
160 pages
750 copies
Color photographs
Designed by THINK WORK OBSERVE

This body of work started around early March 2020. I felt the urge to take advantage of the suspended time that we all had available, trying to learn something from it. Home and its territory have always been a mysterious combination of known and unknown. The way I find myself most comfortable exploring its surroundings is usually by taking into account both aspects. Looking close and looking far. A little at a time. These images were made in the difficult and surreal circumstances we are still living in a year later. They have been an exercise to train the eye, to seek some sort of meaning in the objects, atmospheres and thoughts I've always been attracted to. In Search of Appropriate Images tries to fulfill the need to distill pictures that represent an inner voice — and it has been an opportunity to preserve and protect them.

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