V edition - 2016

Alice Pavesi Fiori

The Spectacle of Disappearing Girl

This time the Fabbri jar is turned upside down on a child’s head, probably after the child has just finished devouring its contents. The game, however, in Alice Pavesi Fiori’s work, becomes something mysterious. The object hides a face, so that viewers cannot completely see the child in front of them. What does this child look like? What are her eyes like, and her hair, and her features? Who can recognise her? There is a surreal element which changes a seemingly realistic context. The contrast is made even more apparent by the sharpness of the image, which is rare in the artist’s work. Her photographs, including the series Attese (Waiting), are usually faded, as if they were taken a long time ago, with pictorial connotations that here are completely absent.

Alice Pavesi Fiori