Carlo Alberto Rusca

What do you see when you look in the mirror? What is your visual identity? At the airport or simply at your domestic post office, biometrical data resumes yourself and who you are in so-mething that, most of the time, just a machine can understand and detect, scanning your body and selecting part of yourself, from fingerprints to heat release.
Ultra corpo ciclo 1 is the first part of a project exploring the visual identity of the subject and the perception of reality through the photo-graphic use of the non visible light. Using an experimental technique and a modified came-ra, which is able to detect and use the invisible light's frequencies for the human's eye, the por-trayed bodies show us their natural tattoo: their blood veins.
Thank to this unedited technology, developed by the photographer himself, the camera can capt the images lying underneath the skin, breaking its surface and reaching until 5mm of depth. This new esthetic instrument, extremely con-crete and accessible, may open a varied dialo-gue with its viewer: from the alienating, strange visual effect, to the discussion about the percep-tion of reality and how much it is related to our vision and its biological limits.