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Graduating from MA Fine Art at Chelsea James Bacchi-Andreoli has recently exhibited with the Contemporary Arts Society, Arts Council and the new Lightbox Gallery in Woking. His practice draws references from art history and contemporary theory and this most recent body of work, and first for murmurART, of photographic images questions our relationship between assumptions of identity, representation and social ideals. A vacancy haunts his images as an ambiguity plays at their center between what, on the one hand, we perceive the image to signify and on the other, the inanimate sculptural forms from which they are composed. Following in the footsteps of Baudrillard’s Flâneur, Bacchi-Andreoli is highly influenced by the writing of Georg Simmel, Edgar Allen Poe and Bernard Tschumi.
Photography
59cm x 84cm
Framed, Lambda c type print, Satin laminated, Mounted on 5mm foamex
Edition of 5 and 1ap
This series of works were shot with a high performance digital zoom lens through shop windows. Andereoli's strong technical ability with the camera takes into account the changing and varied lighting conditions to produce the what looks to be studio images. The series is part of an expanded enquiry in which, due to the nature of how the images are taken, the artist has removed himself from certain parts of the decision making process.