Go / No-Go
(Garden Test)
“Il mondo non è il prodotto di soggettività umane che impongono significati, ma un campo in cui umano e non umano co-producono realtà.”
Sara Benaglia, “Immagini infestate. Ecologie tossiche della fotografia.”
Mimesis edizioni, 2026
The project unfolds as an experimental process that brings photography, the environment and unpredictability into dialogue. A number of rolls of film were left for some time in an outdoor space: exposed to environmental conditions, the passage of time and the transformations of the site; the photosensitive material undergoes a phase of latency and alteration, accumulating traces, deterioration and changes that are neither fully predictable nor controllable. In this initial state of suspension, the roll of film functions as a device undergoing a silent test, a threshold of uncertain operation – a condition that the project encapsulates in the title Go / No-Go, evoking the control protocols typical of industrial and photographic processes. The films, subsequently used to take photographs in the very same space that housed them, reveal – once developed – what the environment has imprinted on the frames, establishing a connection between human intention and the unpredictable forces of the context.
The resulting images arise from the interplay between gesture, time, material and environment. Traces, smudges and distortions are not seen as errors, but as signs of a process: evidence of transformations that become part of the visual language. The context thus emerges not as a subject to be documented, but as a field of forces, an active site of transformation and co-authorship.
Fine Art photographic prints on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Book&Album 200 paper from colour film, variable dimensions
2026
The project was produced during the Innesti artist residency at Il Giardino di Yoshimasa (Ceranesi, GE).
