Teresa Emanuele's work focuses on the ambiguity of the photographic vision and the evanescence of the concept of "reality," starting from landscape photography. Her work denotes a close attention to detail, a macro study that draws images of everyday life into an evanescent dimension, halfway between realism, dreamlike dimension and abstraction. Her most recent artistic research focuses on three dimensional and kinetic potential of black and white prints on transparent surfaces such as glass and methacrylate. The prints cast a shadow on the wall behind. The 3D effect is unknown to other forms of photography and printing.
Through the exploration of the projections of shadows, in a continuous challenge to the static nature of the photographic medium, the artist thus works on the thin gap existing between reality and imagination, between reflected image, dream and appearance.
Teresa Emanuele
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Thanks to some technical devices, such as a careful study of the materials and the supports used, and through the multiplication of the surfaces on which the image that the artist places at the center of his goal is placed, the photographs of Teresa Emanuele become mysteriously mobile and evanescent, acquiring lightness, sensuality of the material and poetry.
The artist is also investigating all possible int eract ions between digital and analogical photography. In addition to film and darkroom printing she produces and edits with a printing press. Every photographed object is covered with a sort of aura, which makes it essential. An invitation to look around to see again the thickness, density and sensuality of the world, restoring to the real what, in the end, has always belonged to him: the right to be observed slowly with gratitude and praise. The natural or physical elements become images, necessarily linked to the artist's emotional structure.
Teresa Emanuele was born in Rome in 1980. She earned a BA in law from Rome's LUISS University and an LLM from Columbia University. It was living in New York City that fostered an interest in art when she began to take her first photographs, learning more about the medium along the way. In 2008 she attended the PhotoManhattan - a School of Photography, where she perfected technique in black and white and portraiture. She quit as an associate in a Wall Street law at the end of 2008 and moved back to Rome to more time to art.
Her exhibitions include: IN SOMNIA - Single Act at AdnKronos Museum, Rome and Spo leto, 2015; QVOD VIDES, TOTVM, Cultural Section of the Italian Consul General, Jeddah (KSA), 2013; Crossover - A dialog between the Chinese School of Hubei a nd the new Italian art scene at the 55th Ve nice Bienn ale, 2013; 2014 - Pop Up Show, Hubei Mus eum of Art, Hubei (China); and Bienal del Fin del Mundo, Palacio Municipal, Mar del Plata (Argentina), 2015.