For me, photography is a language that allows us to write and question with light our relationship to the world: to time and matter.
The activation of the camera imposes an instant of vacuum, of suspension of the perception during the shooting. The snapshot does not provide a restitution of the vision, it operates the suspension. I think it’s by expanding this “time of thought” that we have the opportunity to broaden our thinking.
For me, photographing is not a strictly documentary act. An upstream meeting with the architect/artist, an experience of the places and an intimate process of introspection are necessary in order to enter into resonance.
I install and restore a dialogue: between matter and man, light and space, air and its vibration.
HÎGO is represented by the architect and artist Agathe Rosa.
Lives and work in Marseille (Fr).
After a bachelor at the Sapienza in Rome, I gratuate from the National School of Architecture of Marseille with honors in 2011 supporting my thesis: "Time given to the critical thinking".
Then I decide to abandon the work in studio to construct with the light. The photographic act is the basis of my research and creative process.
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I am represented by the Gallery "Société Interludio" (Torino, italy) and supported by "Documents d'artistes Paca" .
My work has been presented in France and internationally in many institutions such as The Centre of Contemporary writings « La Chartreuse », Villeneuve lez Avignon (Fr), Italian Cultural Center, Marseille(Fr) the Museo Helio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro (Br), Center Pompidou, Paris (Fr), Museo Santa Maria della Scala, Siena (It), Galleria d'Arte moderna e Contemporanea Raffaele de Grada. San Gimignano (It) or the Saint-Exupéry Cultural Center, Reims (Fr).
In parallel of my artistic research, I am teaching as Professor in Art and techniques of representation at Ensa Marseille since 2015, I intervene in many seminars including "Atelier Khora - Ville Paysage à la Maison de l'Architecture et de la Ville, Marseille (Fr), "Discours Eupaliniens", Frac Paca, Marseille (Fr) and "I mondi dell 'arte", Accademia delle Belle Arti, Bologna (It). In 2014 I produced a book project of cross interviews with Michelangelo Pistoletto on the artist / craftsman relationship.