Luca Baioni Demons from the old black, serpents and silence

“a world collapsing endlessly, a frozen world, under a
untroubled sky, enough to see by, yes, and frozen too.
...here nothing stirs, has ever stirred, will ever stir except
myself, who do not stir either, when i am there, but see
and am seen. Yes, a world at an end, in spite of appearances,
its end brought it forth, ending it began”
Beckett 1973

 

© Luca Baioni from the series 'Due-Eating our bodies'

Hidden underneath the thick and branded cover the book actually starts off with these words. Immediately , you'll find yourself in a state of anxiety while turning the pages. The project DTTOBSS is born out of a meeting between Luca Baioni and Paolo Bazzana from No Moire and his researches and developments in printing techniques. This is a good match because of Baioni's modus operandi which is based on world fragments, cameras, digital and analogue post-production and paper. These elements are used in his process, he 's driven by a rigorous indiscpline and actually a need to destroy the language and the core–image. The feeling for him comes from 'training' in the past when he produced pictures like every starter: copying from the great classics, or street photographs with an applied standard and rules; satisfying in terms of aesthetics and content. All needed to be recognizable! DFTOBSS is NOT!

It is the necessity to destroy all the perfections that are built up around the world of images. There's no need to tell a story or to puzzle for one. The title is simply a word play which aims at holding together all the feelings he battled with the past few years. Demons are born and reborn, eternally, from the dark That darkness from which everything appears, through trauma. That distant darkness which follows us with our delusions. “Old”black because it's been there forever. The snakes of doubt and truth. Nests of vipers. Eternities intertwining. Silences which we should share. Then everything will disappear again into darkness to start anew.

 

 

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Luca Baioni
Cesura Publishing