Malsicuri simulacri
by Elisabetta Scalvini
portfolio special mention call 'Urbanautica Institute Awards 2023', 2023
Category: Memories and Traditions
The images offered here are part of a photo series processed daily during the long months of lockdown by means of an old phone that has a one-megapixel camera.
I stayed close to my daily living, choosing the most imprecise technical medium I possess to bring it closer to the limitations we were all experiencing.
This work formed the opportunity to delve into the restriction and seek a possible reading of reality that approached the vulnerability of that suspended time.
Life is there to be watched, calling us to be discerning spectators of a reality that does not crystallize into embarrassing or plasticized icons but remains opaque, available to an ever-open question. Is it possible to question what you are looking at?
These MALSICURI SIMULACRI are the imperfect representation of an ordinary scenario made of habits and meditation. I wanted to be guided by light, by the passage of time, close to the simple gesture that accompanies a gaze in its own and intimate space, without spectacle or artifice.
also from Urbanautica Institute Awards 2023