Camporesi is interested in identifying and revealing the uncanny inherent in places and objects. Over the years, she has distinguished herself through her original use of photography in a meta-real, abstract sense, showing what remains liminal and unexpressed in the contemporary landscape.

Through her conceptual use of photographic language, the artist explores latent and enigmatic images that unsettle our perception, even when they appear to depict normality.

In the exhibition Uno strappo nel cielo di carta — a title inspired by a passage from Luigi Pirandello — Silvia Camporesi presents a new series of colour photographs portraying submerged, mysterious and often forgotten places. Exposed to temporal and natural decay, these sites of the past retain, in their dissipating image, the sense of unease described by Sigmund Freud when defining the uncanny: an expression of both the familiar and the frightening, which disturbs the gaze and leaves the observer in a 'threshold' state between the known and the repressed. The oblivion of our time, which constantly looks to the past in order to preserve human memory without losing it, is the result of the liminal stage we experience daily: uncertain and uneasy in the face of a predictable yet uncontrollable present.

The exhibition is complemented by some vintage works by the artist that address themes of identity and the relationship with literary imagination.

The show is accompanied by a critical essay by Marinella Paderni, who has followed Silvia Camporesi’s artistic development from the outset.