Sofia Masini
Realized from 2019, the project reworks some self-portrait and landscape photographs from the author’s archive through a gestural process of decontextualization and assemblage of images. The photograph is pushed to its limits: the body is blurred, decomposed and dissected. Subtracted from the patriarchal canons of visual representation, it finds a new expressive force – it reveals itself to others and to itself – and can reclaim its own narrative.
What can a body say about itself? How can we get back in touch with it? Can we become part of the world’s body through our senses? What types of knowledge can the relationship between bodies – both human and non-human – provide? Sofia Masini tries to answer these questions visually by playing at destroying her own photographs. The result is the creation of an imaginary and timeless place, where the body becomes the guide to an intimate and infinite map of correspondences between internal sensibility and the external world.
Born in 1991 in Madrid, Sofia Masini lives and works in Milan. Her interest in the body, meant both as a heuristic tool and as an object of inquiry, guides her artistic research. Her work has been exhibited in several independent spaces and institutions in Italy and abroad, including museums and festivals in Italy, Norway, Denmark, and Germany. Her first photobook, The body is a revelation as is landscape, was released in 2023 by the Italian publisher Witty Books. The volume was exhibited as a finalist in the Photo España Book Award and the Singapore International Photography Festival.