Mattia Balsamini, IN SEARCH OF APPROPRIATE IMAGES, 2021

“This work began around March 2020. I felt the need to take advantage of the suspended time we all had available, trying to learn something from it.” Mattia Balsamini moves within the walls of his home and its surroundings, looking for some sort of meaning in the objects, atmospheres and thoughts that are familiar to him. From the combination of these images with some of the photographer’s archival photographs – which needed to be preserved and protected – In Search of Appropriate Images was born.