#HTM3
How to make the right encounter” (2023). Nicole Verzaro in collaboration with ELIOFILM
“Actually, we are not and do not want to be mere spectators, it would be a rather reductive role. We are also actors because, deep down, we are involved in this world and in this life”, Herni replies.
HOW TO MAKE THE RIGHT ENCOUNTER is the human attempt, that comes before the photographic one, to stage an unrepeatable world, the one generated by a small and specific point of view capable of expanding and widening starting from one’s own impressions. All around there are agents, actors and partners of the same event.
The project is generated by an act of nomadism, of mobilization, from a joyful wandering between borders and crossing channels: from street corners in New York, to the uninhabited countryside of West Virginia, up to the urban barriers of Pennsylvania .
How to make the right encounter? The street approach becomes the answer to this question.
There is no exact science that can explain this combination, no theory that makes it possible for us to pre-establish and operate according to intentionality. We must proceed blindly, experimenting and acting in the search for the conduits that can connect us. Photography may be able to map once-in-a-lifetime encounters, but it is in the body, in our progress, in our movement, that we must be able to position ourselves in order to make the right encounters.
Piazzale Flaminio 19, 00196 (RM)
#OUT OF SHAPE
WHERE DO YOU STAND? (2022). Nicole Verzaro for ALTAMIRA aps “Out of shape”
Where does a line start and where does it end? When does an event originate and end? When is a body such without ceasing to change?
Everything has a form and everything is in its form, manifests itself and expresses itself through it and ontologically coincides with it. When, then, can a thing be said to be extraneous and out of itself? When can we establish that that thing is no more itself?
If being outside means exceeding, being elsewhere, overcoming delimitations and boundaries – too often arbitrary or imaginary – then one way things can be said to be extraneous is only in terms of space, of occupation. Through careful placement practice and an understanding of one’s specific point of view, we can learn about one of the infinite possible realities of things.
It is necessary to occupy new spaces, to navigate in an unexplored world, with revolutionary geometries and its own gravity, to get to know the changing reality of things in which every element, shape, event becomes something else without ceasing to be itself.
Expo.LARGO VENUE Via Biordo Michelotti (RM)
