Swim Till I sank, by Gabriele Stabile

We are happy to begin the year with a reflection on process through an exhibition devoted to the transitions from photograph to artwork and from artwork to book. “What happens to journalistic reportage photographs when the news is published, outdated, and years of new news put distance between the shot and the life of the image?” This seems to be the question Gabriele Stabile asks himself when, after more than a decade, he reopens his archive and begins his creative journey with the photographs deposited there, transforming them into the plates you see as you leaf through the book. The photographer’s creative action, like human memory, leaves traces, marks, scratches, repetitions of images, makes the memory an emotion, immediate though not very vivid and definitely reworked. Swim Till I sank is an invitation to plunge into the depths of memories, without necessarily drowning.

Gabriele Stabile’s work come together in the book Swim Till I sank, is the result of a process of stratifications and reflections on the subject matter of the projects carried out by the author in recent years, which pass through forms of physical and material elaboration and in a certain sense metabolization on the meaning of photography-especially when it has photojournalism as its starting point. Layers and reflections that find a further turn in the production of the book and in the dialogue with the publishers and the art director of RVM.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a workshop curated by Gabriele Stabile and Francesca Pignataro

Saturday, February 17 and Sunday, February 18, 2024

10 am – 2 pm, 3 – 6 pm

Here the workshop details

…And to fully enjoy all aspects of Gabriele’s work, the exhibition at Leporello’s resonates with the exhibition at La Cave of a selection of unique works resulting from the reworking of his photographic archive and part of the Swim Till I sank project.

Through Jan. 31 from 4 to 7 p.m. or by appointmentLa Cave – Cantiere delle Arti Visive Largo Giovanni Battista Marzi n.1 on the Testaccio riverfront