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“Photography becomes a way to encounter an illusion”
20.12.53-10.08.04 is the project she started after the sudden death of her mother. The art work composed of family photographs creates Ricci’s personal narratives and portrays scenes in which grown-up Ricci and her mother gaze each other in old black and white photographs. It is viewed that the artist tried to recreate the mise-en-scene, such as outfits, hair and visual setting, similar to the moment when her mother was alive. Ricci’s gaze at her mother signifies a craving for memories of her. Through the action of producing the virtual reality of the past via photography, she reflects the mother’s life and re-experiences the moment when her mother was with her.
According to Ricci, she imagined that if her mother looked at her, she would grab the mother’s hand and jump out of the photograph. However, knowing that it is impossible in reality, she decided to stay with her mother within the photographs. Leeahn gallery invites you to this exhibition that offers the experience to share other’s lives through the re-composition of time and the photographic representation of Ricci.
Working with photograph and video, Moira Ricci was born in Orbetello, Toscana in Italy. She studied photography in Bauer School of Photography, Milan and majored in multimedia and visual communication in Brera Academy, Milan. The main subject matter of Ricci’s works focus on the relationship among family members, home and one’s identity. In 2000, she was a first winner of Riccardo Pezza awards conferred by Milan Museum of Contemporary Photography and opened the first exhibition in Milan in 2006. Also, she recently participated in the group exhibition of the young Italian artists, “We Have Never Been Modern”, held by SongEun Art Space in Korea. In the present, she lives in Orbetello and works for a number of exhibitions in New York and various cities in Europe.
LEEAHN GALLERY
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