Wednesday 31 August 2011

Introducing Davide Maione...


To a Place I can’t Pronounce

A place that I can’t pronounce is the place that I want to be, a place that I can’t pronounce is the place where I am.
How did I get there? Was I drifting or did I fall asleep and miss my stop?
I can’t remember anymore. Sometimes I think that I really don’t know the place, whereas some other times I know it well. Either way I don’t really mind, as I didn’t pay for the ride. It was a journey, I still remember that; it was on a train of associations, and the persistent disillusion to be what I am not became my new obsession.
And again I found intelligence in little words,

To find what I've forgotten, you say,
For the idea of myself,
Shall not enfold me.*


And again I thought, what’s better than a photograph to exceed existence, to go beyond image 
and the idea of you -as me.


* Claudio Galuzzi, La Pianura Dentro, 1993.

    From the series "To a Place I can't Pronounce" © Davide Maione

    From the series "To a Place I can't Pronounce" © Davide Maione

    From the series "To a Place I can't Pronounce" © Davide Maione

    From the series "To a Place I can't Pronounce" © Davide Maione

    From the series "To a Place I can't Pronounce" © Davide Maione


Davide Maione's Biography


Davide Maione is a London based Italian photographer. After completing his BA in Photographic Arts at the University of Westminster, he worked for a few years as an assistant for fashion and still life photographers. Now, as a freelancer he undertakes commercial and editorial assignments. Davide’s research is informed by psychoanalysis as a critical theory for the understanding of contemporary visual culture and the relationship between film and photography. His work has been exhibited in the UK, Russia and Italy.

E-mail: davide@davidemaione.com


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