BLUE WAVE n°2 ed of 3 - Limited Edition 2 of 3 Photograph

Blue Wave n°2 2016 (From "I Want To Talk To Seymour Too" serie) contemporary photography Ink Jet on Baryta ed 3+2ap ed 2/2 The sea is the protagonist of the work of Francesca Rivetti, I Want To Talk To Seymour Too, made up of three series of photographic images. In Ocean, several fragments of plastic bags, found by the artist herself in the depths of various seas around the world, from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, and even the Caribbean are used in the studio to simulate the surface of water. The result is an organic/non-organic hybrid, being infused with life (creating the ‘sex appeal of the inorganic’3), while also being transformed from waste material into sublime scenario. Displacement is a series of still-life images of objects taken from the sea and displayed by Francesca Rivetti as findings, all shaped by the sheer force of the elements. Midway between Surrealism and the Ready-Made, they have the strength of ancestral sculptures, which the camera both documents and interprets, assigning a particular character to each one. They are hieroglyphic representations, “without thickness or weight,”4 as André Chastel describes them, and as such the opposite of reality, and just like a photograph, the bearer of both dreams and nightmares. Here too, as in the plastic seas, we find ourselves trapped in the alternative universes that Francesca Rivetti, comes up with in order to make us rediscover the real world. Francesco Zanot