Marina Ballo Charmet

Since the 1980s Marina Ballo Charmet has been creating photographic series and video works that – in harmony with her philosophical and psychoanalytical training and her activity as a child psychotherapist – explore the relationship with the other. The Primo Campo (First Field) cycle focuses on the perception and visual field of the newborn. The project refers to the idea of the first visual field of a small child in the arms of a familiar figure. The detail of the face, the neck, what lies between the eye and the chest is what the child sees when (s)he is very close to someone. The photographer enlarged these photographs four times to render the idea of closeness.

Since the 1980s Marina Ballo Charmet has been creating photographic series and video works that – in harmony with her philosophical and psychoanalytical training and her activity as a child psychotherapist – explore the relationship with the other, the relationship and perception of the body with the natural, urban and domestic environment. In the Bretagne series, the repetition of a simple element, a few poles along a path, the insistence on a minimal image, with slight shifts that refer to the gesture of “walking side by side” is interesting. At the same time, in composing the sequence, the author intends to give the idea not so much of our movement as of our glances, of the mobility of our gaze.