Submission – Single Category by Silvia Crippa

Reviewer Feedback

Luglio 2019

LensCulture

https://www.lensculture.com/silvia-crippa

Hello, Silvia,

Thank you for taking the time in submitting your work with us. It is more than apparent that you see photography as a constellation of possibilities lead to creative conclusions and challenges. Your work has a high artistic value but also a strong connection to Documentation as an act of preserving facts and memories. In response to your request for feedback, your work can be interpreted in various ways. From my standpoint, I see a particular focus on the very material as a mean of preserving memory. Of course, my interpretation could be completely wrong, but that's the true value of art, to gather different thoughts and ideas around the piece of art, initiating a creative dialogue between the artist, the audience, and the society. A photograph in your hands seems functioning primarily as a document of memory, a memory that is formed and unfolded like a short piece of poetry, materialized on the surface of the paper. Through this short, visual poem, a photograph, the viewer is getting connected with the past, with space, with a society that perhaps no longer exists. Yes, I believe that you are doing something very interesting here, Silvia. It is still raw, but it has great potential to grow and to become a significant and meaningful artwork. I am not quite sure why you selected the single image category to present your work, and I wonder if it was indeed the best option for your art. The strong affiliation among the images is obvious, and their artistic value becomes higher when we perceive them as a single body of work instead of individual, unrelated to each other images. The blending of photography, poetry, and architecture is a highly creative act that cannot be fulfilled properly in a single photograph.

The jury in this category will evaluate each picture separated from the rest of the submission. That's how the single image category works. The jurors have not the privilege I have to see this submission as a whole, so they may lack the opportunity to approach your work in a deeper way. That's why I consider the Series category a much better option, for displaying your work as a body that has started to form, to acquire content, and to challenge the audience to engage with it. I am not asserting that your submission has no chances to go high. Of course, it has. But the presentation of our work is half of the success.

Again, Silvia, you are a talented photographer -or to say better, a visual artist- and you have the potential for doing great art. There is no reason to say something about your technique since it is obviously efficient and I am sure that you are well aware of that. What I do want to say is how interesting your background in Literature affects your photography too. I visited your website to learn more about you and I saw that everything you do has this narrative-driven aesthetics that touches my artistic sensibilities in a profound way. Keep on exploring the possibilities of artistic expression, and I am sure that there are many new things for you to discover and share with your audience. My engagement with your work was an exciting and pleasant experience. I am very pleased with what I have seen in this submission, and I am looking forward to seeing more of your work in the future. In a world flooded with photographs, it is important to make work that is valuable.

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Mostra personale

"Human"

Calisto Cafè

Vailate

giugno-luglio 2018

Il dramma dello strappo
L’ancora della parola
L’imperfezione della vita
Il coraggio dello sguardo
trova speranza

Queste parole scritte dall’artista Silvia Crippa per donare il proprio valore etico nell’arte e nella sua percezione, sono la sintesi in poesia delle sue passeggiate urbane ,intraprese con intenzioni d’attrazione di sguardi nelle periferie metropolitane e nei contesti post industriali per scorciare la scelta dell’occhio in quella che poi diverrà funzionalità di composizione fra le scatole supporto e la fotografia che si è occasionata nell’attraversamento. Human è il titolo della mostra e dell’opera piu’ rappresentativa per l’artista dove la traccia dell’uomo su una parete di una cascina è stata colta nell’esprimere la sua energia archetipa ed inserita con uno strappo visivo sulla superficie della scatola ,integrando una profondità intuibile che si plasma con tutta l’opera.Di queste plasmazioni stampate su carta da lucido vivono le fotografie di Silvia Crippa che raggiungono la forma dell’impressione per essere impresse sui supporti reinvetandoli a nuove funzionalità.L’installazione al Calisto Cafè permette al visitatore di realizzare un percorso dove i lavori sono in alcuni casi delle serie ripetute di prospettiche variate , in altri moltiplicazioni di un unico concetto visivo. In entrambi i casi è presente un vero e proprio utilizzo della fotografia che diviene oggetto compatibile ed empatico.Modulo che non è piu’ scarto, ma frutto di lavorazione,di passaggi segnici. Lettering sovraimpressi di architetture che anche se cambiano soggetto reinviano sempre ad una azione contemporanea.Quando poi le parole escono dalle immagini con una leggibilità piu’ definita e divengono piu’ incisive nella comunicazione, si avverte la partecipazione “Human” dell’artista; diversamente restando flussive e leggere, scivolano sul paesaggio urbano come pure e semplici connotazioni segniche.Human porta lo spettatore a riflettere sulla eco compatibiltà dello scarto quando è presente una esplorazione di cio’ che viene visto accanto a sè e che quotidianamente incontra. Silvia Crippa con la sua sensibile e delicata obliquità, lo ripropone in una combinatoria che continua ad offrirlo in memoria attentiva d’immagine e di materia.

Giugno 2018 Alberto Mori