ENTRY DESCRIPTION
"EQUAL ONLY IN THE BEGINNING
YOU FEIGN TO BE FORM AND STEAL FORMS
BREAKING POINT
BLINDING LIGHT THAT PREVENTS SIGHT
EVERYTHING FADES OUT
THEN THE LIGHT COMES BACK"

Pallade Atena,
by A.C. Bianchi

"Divine Cracks" represents the idealization of the feminine essence as the source of creative rebirth, an ode to woman as her whole: life generator/object of male desire/regent of the universal order. The strong contrast of the print together with the detail of the framing generate an abstraction of the human body, almost as if it were the marble statue of a classical divinity. The anatomic detail is subtly revealed within the black of the line confining the erotic tension to an almost subconscious level. The result forms a crack in the white idyll of the paper that shatters all certainties of the male universe, a slight discomfort, a faint embarassment... the photographic medium reminds us that everything is real, attainable, touchable, earthly yet uncanny. The single images don’t bear names, only numbers, making all the subjects equivalent, at the same time different from one another, unique.

AUTHOR
Born and raised in Switzerland in the 70’s. Death metal drummer in the 80’s. Works in the italian movie industry and studies
photography at ICP in New York in the 90’s. Set photographer, portraits, food, architecture and videocameraman in the
00’s. Personal and group shows in Rome and New York since 1997. Director of photography for the documentary “HNHermann
Nitsch (Audience Award, Beverly Hills Film Festival 2011). Set photographer for the feature “The Black Brothers”
by Academy Award winner Xavier Koller in 2012.

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