VIRGILIO FERREIRA & GIACOMO BRUNELLI : Seen and Unseen

4 Oct-3 Nov 2013

Overview

Virgilio Ferreira looks to capture impressions that are vague or intangible, but that include notions of social and everyday life. He attempts to do this by exploring the analogue photographic process creatively, in order to deny any fixed reality and the vision that the camera offers. At the same time, aesthetically, the images may have similarities with qualities of painting or drawing. For the past few years Italian photographer Giacomo Brunelli (b. 1977) has been observing animals and using them as the inspiration for his work. Taken in both country and urban settings, Brunelli’s photographs explore the darker side of the animal kingdom. These frequently unsettling depictions of familiar, often domesticated, creatures question how much we truly understand them and their innate wildness.