Enrico Smerilli
PHROOM ENRICO SMERILLI website instagram In Enrico Smerilli’s authorial practice, the close-up is an element that returns insistently and runs through the different photographic series made by the author. The close-up shot of the subject—the exclusion from the composition of other elements that could connote or contextualize it—turns the images into pure surface, a skin […]
American Polychronic // Roe Ethridge
ROE ETHRIDGE American Polychronic websiteinstagram published by: MACKtext by: Federica Zotti Roe Ethridge’s American Polychronic is an extensive catalogue spanning the artist’s entire career, presenting works from 2000 to 2021. Ethridge’s approach to photography is an exercise in audacity and experimentation, a relentless search for new ways of seeing and interpreting the world. Through […]
Liza Ambrossio & Javier Martín-Jiménez
PHROOM LIZA AMBROSSIO Interview with Javier Martín-Jiménez on Liza Ambrossio’s work website instagram interview by: Giangiacomo Cirla Giangiacomo Cirla: Hello Javier, it is a pleasure to be able to talk with you about Liza Ambrossio’s work, particularly what you have accomplished together during the last few years of collaboration and what you have recently inaugurated. […]
Raphael Zulfugarov
PHROOM RAPHAEL ZULFUGAROV Corpus Alienum Instagram The colors are muted, the tones are dark, and the landscapes are barren and desolate. Corpses and animal bones scattered in dumps serve as grim reminders of the human sacrifices of our current system. The concept of immigration and the concept of slaughterhouses in this project are linked through […]
Salome Erni
PHROOM SALOME ERNI Dear tomorrow websiteinstagram “Growing up with privileges sets a standard that is expected to be surpassed or at least maintained. On one hand, this is about development, but on the other hand pressure and burden.” 20-year-old Kateryna sums up what many young people from high-income countries in Europe think: That despite […]
Nika Sandler
PHROOM NIKA SANDLER My Nonhuman Friends websiteinstagram Since birth, I have always been surrounded by cats. The first being who became interested in me after I was discharged from the hospital was a cat. He stood on the bed and stared at me. He had never seen a human child before. Fortunately, he liked […]
Maria Denise Dessimoz
MARIA-DENISE DESSIMOZ The inevitable anguish of Desire website Instagram In an unexpected desolation, everything changed. Something died that day. Voids appeared. I fell into the abyss of memories. Recalling fragments of lust, in the liminal space of dreams. Chasing my desire in the subconscious. The carousel of thoughts, spinning and spinning. Leading to turmoil and […]
Andrea Casagrande
ANDREA CASAGRANDE Nigredo websiteInstagram I don’t look like anybody.No one has my eyes, my lips, my hair. I know nothing about genetics except what I learned at school. No one to tell: “I talk like you”, “I scratch my nose nervously like you do”. I feel lonely.I feel alone. I have friends, parents […]
Alessio Pinna
ALESSIO PINNA Il Disordine website Instagram The crystal structure of a mineral is a regular and ordered set of atoms. This invisible structure originates the outer form, which is clearly visible, called “crystalline habit”. A manifestation of the invisible. Sometimes growth is hindered by the simultaneous development of other crystals; the result is a mass […]
Chiara Benzi
CHIARA BENZI Like a Knife in the Sun websiteInstagram “Like a Knife in the Sun” is a radical experimentation that focuses on the point of contact between Eros and Thanatos, the convergence between love and death, the impossible desire of continuity and its inevitable disintegration, bringing out the dominant charm of eroticism. Through […]