A PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH TO PHOTOGRAPHY: MAURA DONATI
by Jean Baudrillard
Gallery 2V opened in May 2002 in Lugano, Switzerland displaying works from 14 Argentinian artists. The gallery expanded from its initial focus on Argentine contemporary art to include Swiss as well as other foreign artists. The artists share an interior coherence bound to the cultural history of their homelands.
View Maura Donati' s photos in fullscreen panorama at 2V Gallery.
All things offer themselves to those who are able to perceive them, without hope of being anything other than the illusion of themselves. And, according to Jean Baudrillard, we can fight against the illusion only by means of a stronger illusion and not with truth or reality.
The work of Maura Donati fits right into this context; she's interested in the individual, an individual who appears and disappears as image of other images.
The Universal, the individual at work, in the street, alone, in a group or in love, becomes trace of the Particular.
To be more hyperreal than the real, more virtual than virtual reality: the simulacrum of thought has to go faster.
The photographer captures the objects while they are about to disappear creating the image of an image.
"We don‚t need a critical awareness in order to give the world the mirror of its double. Our modern world (we no longer think the object, it is the object which thinks us) swallowed its double and at the same time it has lost its shadow, and the irony of this incorporated double erupts at every instant from every fragment of our signs, of our objects, of our models". (Jean Beaudrillard)
 Shoot Details:
Camera: fuji s2 pro, iso : 1600
exposure: 125'/ f 11
light: natural ambient
lens: 28mm (nikon 17- 35mm)
file original: 3024x 2016 pixel
Shots: 32
Tripod Head: Agnos
Maura Donati studied Philosophy and Psychology in Milan, Philosophy and Germanistic in Heidelberg and Photography in Rockport (USA). She teaches at the Public High School of Lugano and she owns a philosophical consulting office.
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