PANDEMONIUM - 2024/2025
The Pandemonium in Milton’s opera “Paradise Lost” is the capital and home of all demons. A grand and disturbing place, built by the pride of fallen angels, symbol of a dark beauty capable of seducing and frightening at the same time. This series of images is intended to illustrate my own Pandemonium. Where my demons take shape, without place or time. A theatre of the unconscious where confusion, bewilderment and restlessness accompany the spectator. Reality changes shape and transforms into a dark, dreamlike world. Light and shadow mix, the line between good and evil becomes blurred, and conflicting emotions coexist on a razor’s edge. As in dreams, figures emerge and disappear, transforming under the gaze of the observer. Ambiguity becomes the language, and what is not seen weighs as much as what is represented. The Pandemonium thus becomes a place of passage, a threshold between wakefulness and nightmare, between memory and imagination, in which the spectator is a participant in an emotional journey that forces him to confront his own shadows. The images do not seek order or explanation, but envelop the viewer in a climate of suspension and uncertainty, as if time had slowed or cracked. Every photograph is a gateway to a parallel world where logic gives way to sensation. In this dimension, what frightens can fascinate, and what is dark can reveal an unexpected form of beauty. Pandemonium is therefore a parallel world made out of my imagination, but also my inner world, where my imagination and emotions are sovereign.