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Jugglers that seem to have come out of the Dadaist Cabaret Voltaire, landscapes of regular and neoplastic shapes kissed by contrasting lights, 'human' animals and theatrical performers that appear, to claim their role in the world. Nature, veiled in nuance and signs of human work and everyday life. These are some of the 'eclectic' reflections of Lucia Bargagli, who decided to give this name to the exhibition. Eclectic is someone who, in art or science, does not follow a particular system or direction, but chooses and harmonies different principles, trends and needs.

Like photography thet is necessary for her: the Gesture of photographing, indeed is necessary for her. As a relationship between her and the world, beyond time, which allows what otherwise could not be seen, if it had not been photographed: that hic et nunc, which gives us timeless images, which we would struggle to date, if we did not know that they were taken by her in recent years. Zoomed into time, as well as in space, itself eclectic, even in its aesthetic similarities. Like the points of light that dominate the poetics of her photos, in her macro flowers that spontaneously recall Talbots early photogenic drawings and heliographs, or almost like rayograms in which the flower she has chosen has decided to leave a trace of dew on its path: this centre of light, that we find in nature, in metals, in nets, in the eyes of jugglers regardless of where and when. One of these photos reads: "Mongrelism", that is hybridism. The face could be that of a famous silent film actor, next to a blow-up of a 90s motorcyclist.

Another zoom in time. There are homeless reading about economic systems lying in the rubbish; those who pray for covid and those who leave an intimate love letter in a shop, whose very form of Arabic characters makes it sweet and suspended. It is the transmission of moods that holds everything together.

They are "live takes" in which the noble thing is not the individual theme, but the astonishment at what is manifested before her. And in this, it is sincerity.










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