"The Hourglass Model"
Pinhole Photographs
Le Industrie Invisibili SoFiET (Science of Fiction Entertainment Technologies) is a cooperative art project based in Sardinia, Italy and Los Angeles, California. The project explores expressive techniques to create fictive film stills created with pinhole photography. Classical Hollywood movie plots; landscapes and characters are filtered by the fuzzy, black and white eye of home made cameras.
The show title THE HOURGLASS MODEL, refers to the way images, passing through the tiny opening of the pinhole camera, are reborn into an upside down world.
Two series of pinhole photographs are in this exhibition. “Justice Never Sleeps” is a sequence of images, arranged in a wide billboard format. The images narrate a (fictive) unsolved murder case located in Sardinia, Italy, where the police hunt a wanted man. The images represent the places where the murderer had slept the night before.
“Faded Landscapes” is a series of ultra-wide angle, panoramic photos of Sardinian spring landscapes. A technical flaw common in pinhole cameras is exploited to reveal a recognizable image on the edges which fades to a flat white center. The viewer's eye is drawn to the center blind spot. The pinhole cameras used to create these photos are exhibited as part of the image making process.
Le Industrie Invisibili has been producing and exhibiting work since 2001at venues including the Arts Academy in Stuttgart Germany, Capitol Arte Contemporanea Gallery in Milan Italy, Cittadella dei Musei in Cagliari, Italy and Raid Projects in Los Angeles, California.
Stefano Cossu
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