EAT Photos #14: Mattia Parodi [Tristan Godefroy]

On the occasion of its 14th edition, EAT Photos introduces us to the photographer’s personal work Mattia Parodi represented by the agency Tristan Godefroy.

THE MISSING EYE
Photographer: Mattia Parodi

Recent studies published by Cognitive Brain Research have demonstrated, using instruments measuring dream activity, that people who have been blind since birth dream in images. Several hypotheses suggest that these representations result from the collaboration between the activity of the visual cortex and the activity of other sensory organs, but it is not excluded that the human being has an innate visual memory, parallel and pre-existing to that -this. which develops through the retinal system. Some images seem independent of the visual apparatus and even if they appear in dreams, it is still possible to see them.
With what eye do we perceive them?
The Missing Eye is a research that transforms the photographic device into visual projections which are not deduced from our immediate experience of reality but are the result of the combination of different cognitive paths in which all the senses participate in sight. The gaze dissolves and the eye becomes the changing object of our perceptions, an abstract organ capable of processing images beyond retinal impulses. The photographic gesture captures the visual mechanism and transcends it, drawing attention to the transfigurative mental visions typical of dreams, buried in memory and relegated to the unconscious.

Tristan Godefory :
https://tristangodefroy.com/photography-and-motion/mattia-parodi

Mattia Parodi:
https://www.instagram.com/mattiaparodi/

EAT Photos is a show intended for professional buyers only, bringing together for one day a cutting-edge selection of French and foreign photographers’ agents.

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