UNEXPECTED STORIES
Marina Sersale
curated by Francesco Zizola
19 March - 10 June 2016 | | 10b Photography
A hand flows drawing a sinuous line. We don't know who it belongs to but, as in Barthes' Punctum, it captures our attention and moves our gaze along that line, that wave of chiaroscuro. As in a symphony, it directs the full and the empty, the light and the shadow. Like a metaphysical reflection, a tribute to Giorgio de Chirico, Marina Sersale's images seem to be inspired by the metaphor of the revealing light of that vast territory of dreams and the unconscious, where "every person and every object takes ... a more mysterious aspect; they are the ghosts of beings and things that appear to us; ghosts that once the light is turned on disappear in their unknown realm”.*
Francesco Zizola
* Ebdòmero, Giorgio De Chirico, p. 90
Marina Sersale is a self-taught photographer who lives in Rome, in the past director of documentaries, now she is a creator of perfumes. She began photographing in 2012 when she bought her first iPhone, posting her photos on Instagram. The stratification of reality and its infinite interpretations fascinate me, because it is real not only what you see but also what you choose to look at.
Marina Sersale | Ilex Gallery Artist
