Non-Body

Gloria Dardari photographs human architecture.
Buildings and bodies overlap and intertwine in her shots, for the photographer uses this photographic technique as the common thread joining context to creator: the curved shapes of the human body, the various positions they can assume, in relation to the structures that they themselves build. In Gloria Dardari’s hands the camera becomes a means of creating metaphors and equalities: bodies and architectural constructions are bare, without character, free of their context. This allows the observer to experience the intertwining of nature and artifice beyond time and space, grasping the sensitive and human aspects even in inanimate forms.
In her research project, the photographer takes the concept of architecture created in man’s image and likeness to an extreme, in however abstract a way: “Man includes, contains, is in empathy with all elements of his reality, is aware of it and controls it, in an eternal vital flow that is not limited to the body, but in which the body is necessary.” And it is this empathy, however metaphysical, that is the key to interpretation, allowing us to perceive the corporeal qualities of buildings and structures, and their human sentiments: the effort they make to support their own weight, the tension they experience as they bend to join two points, their natural pride at having conquered an erect position.

Francesco Cibati
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