Photograph, poetry and silence

Donatella Simonetti views the world through the lens of her camera to explore its poetry. She enjoys the instant in which she snaps her photo as if it were a literary composition, in which images and words overlap, confusing their boundaries.
She does not produce sentences, but photographic images evoking words and silences: spaces for reflection on the urban scenario.
In her work NOBODY IN BERLIN the author represents the German capital without the ethnic and cultural melting pot of its inhabitants, almost as if to show it to us in all its welcoming integrity.
A difficult, complex city marked by the signs of world history, which the author hands down to us as words transformed into images that think.
She uses this visual expedient to invite the onlooker to participate in the creation of the very intimate space she has photographed, sharing it with each of them. And so these spaces devoid of people are repopulated by all the people who come into contact with them with their eyes, looking at her photographs.
The author’s work is intellectual and literary,  and must be considered attentively to enter the urban spaces she has immortalised, imagining the words, sensations, silences and memories that live in them, like a book to be read in solitude in the intimacy of the home, imagining the story it contains.
 
Paolo Schianchi