Virtuoso of barely 19 years old, the Sicilian artist Kalo Chianetta, from his Instagram page where he posts From my diary, his memory journal, already maintains a special relationship with the 8e art. The opportunity to capture the maturation of a singular perspective, between odes to lost moments and post-adolescent gesture.
Initiated when he was 12 years old, Kalo Chianetta’s photographic quest has to do with what the Gothic is in literature, that is to say the search within the image, for a sensation, of emotional intensity. “ I would describe my creative process as an intimate, hazy moment. So intimate that when finished, I feel a sense of shame at the flood of thoughts that passed through me. It’s as if, during the act, I ceased to exist. It’s my non-being that takes control of me” he explains. Under the severed head of a sheep, the horizontality of a dead fish, the anomaly of a broken eggshell, the warmness of white-hot Sicilian concrete rises from the ground, where these subjects will disappear. “ Photography is a permanent burial of the lived moment. This is what remains, the light in the darkness of death. It’s the tool I use to confront my fear of the latter, which fascinates and terrifies me in equal measure. » adds the author. But this obsession is combined in a plurality of forms, in the desire to experiment. From still portraits to the details of a arched torso, of an agave flower whose plant withers after flowering, to the smallness of young shoots captured at night, a self-portrait of the artist is cut out in negative, both witness and inhabited, subject, as in his magnificent self-portrait, of these own alterations. “ I don’t think landscapes are places where ghosts could reside, because I believe landscapes themselves are ghosts » he concludes.
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