I Am the Snow
Doing a review of applications and nuances that elevate the 'act of photographing a pure expression of the' unconscious, there is no denying about how strong is the evocative power of an image capable of trhow again his audience in some corner of their ancestral past. Perhaps it will seem trivial to mention scrapbook, but this series is nothing but a tautological review of everything I can remember. The format and the same number of photos to recreate a sort of grid of a map, follow the directives of meridians and parallels to reach inaccessible and forgotten treasures and all those stars and white spots are rather like the ashes of an urn that emptied into the sea , and the wind has scattered in the most significant memory. The boat sank, the quay of the port, the vision of the sea and its odors, dust crumble as the city and its infrastructure existential, all of which remains suspended in air and then fall on a circular expanse of snow, where small human figures chase, leaving traces and then cancel, but still confident they can climb safely to be able to paralyze the sky and absorbe the horizon.
Winter: an endless series of boring days inside a house that belonged to me more, did it I started to open old boxes packed full of those items you do not throw in the 'possibility that one day may serve, but then, the Most often, they are to dust. Are prey to flare ups and downs between innocence and terror, hope to get up one morning and see the window ledge of snow, the 'anxiety of the long corridors and shadows on the walls, observed well, animated, eternal silence family compensated escape in the imaginary realms designed to your liking.
These images never leaves me, even when I left the city. Images so violent and evil that became my only reference point for a very long time. After departure.
Chapter closed.
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Biography
Chris Rain is a visual artist born and growed in Rome, though of foreign origin in the early 80s.
Self-taught, forced into a long-isolated environment, he pursued his research in music communication first, then using any device, including the photographic medium. He does not like to speak up for special titles or categorizations, in his films and chemical processes are just some of the many synonyms that can appeal to the tools of expression and alteration of real emancipation. Ignorance, desires, memories and fantasies are recurrent patterns that come together with insistence on changing faces faded and similarly hidden in imaginary landscapes.
EXHIBITIONS
2008 Palazzo Ratto-Picasso (Genova) 2008
2009 Theatre de Varietè (Monte Carlo) - Immagine Colore (San Remo) - Teatro Agorà (Roma) - Dimensione Massima 10x12 (Roma) - Renaissance Art Prize Barbican (Londra) - Sinergy Art Studio (Roma) Knulp (Trieste)
2010 Corte del Libro (Tolmezzo UD) - Simposio (Roma) - Centro Fotografia d'Autore (Bibbiena AR) - ST fotogalleria (Roma) - The Hospital Private Members Club (Londra) - Fotosintesi Festival (Piacenza) - Boutographies Festival (Montpellier) - Fotoleggendo Festival (Roma)
AWARDS
Renaissance Arts Prize London 09
Festival di Savignano SiFest 09
Fotoleggendo Festival Roma 09
Renaissance Photography Prize Honoreable Mention London 09
PUBLICATIONS
Kult, Shots, Punto di Svista, Riflessioni Portfolio Italia, Fotografare, Descry Magazine, Il Manifesto, Fotosintesi Catalogue, Renaissance Photography Catalogue, Espresso web, La Stampa web,
Il Fotografo, Young Blood 10, Fotocult, Inside Art
BOOKS
2010 I AM THE SNOW 72p, b&w photographs, cm27x27 Postcart Edizioni ISBN 978-88-867-95-39-5 |
