Valentina Ferrari
TEMPOSPAZIO | Valentina Ferrari, instant photography, Polaroid, 2022
Camera: Polaroid OneStep+
Film: Polaroid 600 colors
Technique: Self-portrait in light painting
Polaroid single size: 8.8x10.7 cm
Project: One step and then another, in a circle, starting slowly and always faster. A limited space that closes and opens at the same time. To movement and possibilities. The time of the shot, which captures the light - the distance between the steps - is limited. A narrative between the body rooms that winds through the sign/ gesture and emerges in the encounter with light/shadow. The gesture, first defined, becomes hinted, a dash of light to leave room for that body memory that is realized when the gesture is accomplished. A reflection on the reshaping that leads to movement, to displacement. Weight calibration, Breath, balance, suspension, wait, release, speed. In the perimeter of six tiles and a handful of seconds, develops "TEMPOSPAZIO". Circular movements because what happened has already happened.
My visual research with the Polaroid starts from the idea of a possibility different from the one that reality captures. A mirror through which the deformation can return an intimate reading of the landscape / object / subject photographed, irremediably altering what the gaze collects.
Born in Formia, between sea and mountains. Class '91. I live and work in Florence. My artistic path develops between the visual and performative disciplines from the point of view of research: on the body, in words, in images. A communion of languages that chase and connect, mix, find shape and contaminate each other.