Presence/Absence

• Prize
  Bronze in Fine Art/Other
• Photographer
  Francesco Pace Rizzi
• Photo Date
  2019/2021

The ephemeral geometries of shadows have always exerted a unique charm, capable of freeing the imagination and creating surreal and impalpable images, made of “darkness”, of absence. I tried to create with shadows a suggestive effect of visual ambiguity: the subject is out of the frame and yet inside the scene! The aim of the work was to immortalise with images the “presence of an absence” by making the observer participate in this incredible visual suggestion. "In truth, there are no secrets or mysteries: everything is shadow magic" (Junichiro Tanizaki, taken from: Book of Shadows)