Time Frame

 

A photography project that happens to coincide with the informal encounter of an Italian artist with the young French actress Mathilde Irrmann in autumn 2015.

We are in Berlin, the city where the visual artist Enrico Pietracci lives since 1994. The Fall of the Wall and the thousands of resulting urban and cultural voids have created the unique and characteristic space that has attracted the attention of countless curious and young artists from all parts of the world over the years.

Thousands of different energy streams have flooded the urban network and the constantly changing locations.

The scars of recent history overlap with the creative chaos of

innumerable construction sites from which, with the present eye, something could have emerged.

In such a city, one can’t help feeling called upon to participate in the filling of any physical and cultural "spaces" that demand new possibilities of interpretation.

An unknown and promising piece of land amid an old and exhausted Europe.

The dynamic movements, resulting from the combination of different ingredients such as the abovementioned void spaces and the huge number of new international city dwellers full of enthusiasm and expectations, could only drive the city to new possible expressive horizons.

Many years have passed, many things have changed, and again, as in the screenplay of an old, out-of-fashion comedy, exactly the same has been repeated.

Up to that afternoon at the end of spring, when the already somewhat older and disillusioned artist and the young French actress with the expressive timeless face meet. A city with contradictory and complex attitudes thus becomes the differentiated background, in front of which a young woman moves with warm and apparently not belonging to this world grace, while constantly creating connections and interactive relations.

Before the eyes of the artist, step by step a kind of picture story arises, a journey through time and space, illustrated by dozens of photograms, which seem to belong to a never - turned film, a clear sequence of overlapping times, stimulating the search for a harmonious and sensitive dimension, that will allow the urban space and the seasons to blend with the physical presence and sensibility of the young actress by taking on a dimension that has emerged from today's time.

Like Alice on her journey behind the mirror, the protagonist accompanies us through the spaces of the big city. The hours and months seem to pass away, without affecting the detached and slightly hieratic action of the travelers. The actress accompanies us through the spiral of the seasons and invites us to observe with great attention every detail in the picture in which she appears.

In all the big pictures, which seem to be normal at first glance, an often insignificant and not instantly recognizable detail hides, which is the counterpart to a further detail, which can be found at another point of the picture chronical. A thin, discreet red line accompanies the path, the viewer is requested to look at the illustrations attentively and to look at every detail contained in the picture conscientiously, also with the help of a magnifying glass. The aim is to find the band that links the sequence of the story.

Good Trip!

 

Photos, Enrico Pietracci

Model, Mathilde Irrmann

Text, Corinna Sigmund