There is a subtle dialogue in the space between the photographed location and the interpretation of the artist who expresses the image of Amarena Fabbri in a very creative way. This is the first time that Stefano Scheda has worked with an interior setting, and the inspiration came from the idea of the “commission”.
The artist has created an instable balance between the scene, a confessional inside a church, and an unlikely combination, a curtain decorated with the pattern of the Fabbri jar. This is an elegant game of cross-references. Gluttony is an intriguing short-circuit of the unusual combination with the sweetness of the amarenas that takes everyone back to their childhood. The cross-contamination of images is part of the artist’s style. In the photograph, which was taken in a live setting, without any post-production alterations, the interior is transformed into an incoherent setting. The artist creates performance photography, interpreted poetically. He thought up, designed and created the curtain, the paradigmatic motif of his “open work”. The decoration, taken from the Fabbri jar, is a way of paying tribute, which, like plagiarism, has always gone hand in hand with artistic creation. The final result is a short-circuit of reality without changing its objective physical appearance, playing on the knowledge and emotions of the viewer.
The classical composition of the work intensifies the decontextualisation of the elements in the scene (the curtain and the confessional) and their recomposition in the image. This aesthetic and conceptual redefinition can seemingly be assimilated with the surrealist artistic process. It is an act of communication which is original in terms of the understanding of the idea and its visible, concrete creation.