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Crossing, Milan, 2004 (détail)
Crossing, Milan, 2004 (détail)
Crossing, Milan, 2004 (détail)
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21 June - 10 September 2006
Francesco Jodice was born in Naples in 1967. He studied architecture before becoming interested in photography, video and cartography. His work mainly looks at the interaction of individuals with urban space, where places are settings for those that use them and architecture influences behaviour.
"Crossing" ( 2004) is a series of life-size photos of people walking towards the camera unaware that they are being photographed. These pictures taken spontaneously and at random are then arranged side by side in order to create a continuity between the subjects and the space they occupy. The subjects unconsciously raise the question of their own identity and their relationship to the space they are walking through.
Secret Traces (1998-2005) looks at the way we leave our mark on the place where we live. Jodice followed people from their home to their workplace, by car and on foot, in New York, Milan, Perth, Naples and Ostend.
The people knew they were going to be followed, but they didn't know when it was going to happen. The idea was to capture the specific nature of gestures and habits the individual is unaware of, according to a comparative method that classifies and measures the relationship between the individual and his environment. It was also a means for the artist to enter unfamiliar urban territory. Following in the footsteps of another person is a journey into the unknown.
Francesco Jodice took some 300 photos of each person, always from behind. In the version shown at the MEP, the work takes the form of a 25-minute photo-animation sequence.
Photography in Francesco Jodice's work is a constantly active witness and a living, functional instrument: a tool producing a view of the world that opens out and then homes in on detail, alternating microcosm and macrocosm. As an attentive observer of human movements, Francesco Jodice produces an atlas of human behaviour and gives a true insight into the 'spirit of place'.
Exhibition sponsored by Alcatel.
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