Wabi-Sabi

Everything revolves around the encounter and luck, which give life to a process of metamorphosis that starts from the naked objet trouvé until it reaches the complexity of the composition. The very act of selecting / presenting / arranging alters the original value of the object and translates it into a different context. Each element retains its patina and shows its scars. Wabi-Sabi is a founding concept of Japanese aesthetics; "It is the beauty of imperfect, ephemeral and incomplete things. It is the beauty in what is humble and simple. The beauty of unusual things. Wabi-Sabi could also be defined as the Zen of Things. "(Leonard Koren)
Wabi-Sabi deals with these themes, inspired by the discovery of some undated negatives, some of them showing compositions of Ikebana. They probably belonged to an artist or a photographic studio. The found material - shots of various sizes, glass sheets and hand-written parchment paper containers - are printed in contact on a 1: 1 scale without avoiding their dust and scratches. Some of them are enlarged in order to represent their original sculptural presence, to compose an archive of study objects. This observation gives rise to a reflection on the possibilities of human intervention on nature and to bend its natural forms, from complex to schematic, trying to regulate the unpredictable.