PERSONAL... BUT VERY GENERIC, TOO, 2025
Framed pigment prints. Dimension variable.
Personal... But Very Generic, Too explores time, relationships, and the complexities of dual cultural identity. The project unfolds through a structured yet humorous investigation of vernacular and everyday visual culture, revealing tensions, overlaps, and contradictions between Italian and American ethos and sensibilities.
This subjective collection of photographs resists linearity and fixed categories. Blurring photographic genres and practices, the images are both straightforward and ambiguous, suggesting allegories and deeper meanings beneath the surface.
Set against a backdrop of media overload, consumer culture, institutional decline, and social flatness, the images form loose constellations of signs, inviting free associations and open-ended interpretation. Through dynamic framing, saturated color, tight cropping, and layered textures, these visual fragments evoke broader concerns with perception, subculture, dissent, structure, family, health, and transcendence.
Installation view from the exhibition The Photographic Unsaid at the Pingyao International Photography Festival, China. Curated by James Ramer.