Rosso

Grazia Toderi’s work on cities is based on aerial photographs of digitally processed nocturnal views of Los Angeles, Milan, Florence, Rome and Cagliari. Transformed through the techniques of mirroring, rotation and repetition, the photographs become dream-like and surprising images. Intermittent flashing lights evoke patterns of constellations, creating a surface composed of "choreographies of light”, trajectories of forms and flashes. In "Rosso" - Red -, the city is an irregular and chaotic combination of diverse elements that becomes an unreal and harmonic place through the mechanism of distancing the gaze employed by the artist. This procedure of abstraction suggests a reflection on the relationship between the human, terrestrial condition and the infinite space of the universe.