Matteo Fieni

This research is a process of poetical perception, which follows the sociographic analysis conducted in 2016 (“Barcodes”), where the graphic elements (pattern), sprung from the optical manipulation technique, resembled the motifs adopted by the barcode system. From the image to the inquiry. Then (here) from the inquiry to the immersion, through some snaps taken in that short spatio-temporal framework that occurs between the light fading out and the dark beginning. When (and where) the environmental contrast decreases, the city falls asleep, and the depth of the image intensifies. The mechanical manipulation allows to expand the perceptual moment, thus making visible the process of the “technological unconscious” (ref. Benjamin and Vaccari). It is a more figurative and “gentler” photographic action, in comparison to the linear style sought after in Barcodes. The expansion of an ephemeral vision, like the luminous transition which divides the day from the night, makes the time less real.