Laura thinks and thinks in images: “in her shots there is not just reality, but reality as image, and within the image lies imagination, which includes what has already been seen or believed to have been seen and the new,” as Marco Belpoliti wrote about Luigi Ghirri.
Laura thinks and thinks in black and white. Black and white is a constant in her visual language, which she has always preferred to color.
The photographs on display are part of the “Resonance” series where, thanks to black and white, resonance understood as emotional echo, depth of gaze, and dialogue between the subjects portrayed emerges with greater clarity. The shadows and contrasts that black and white highlights become the space where details and gestures resonate more strongly, giving the photographs an almost tactile intensity, where every fragment of reality takes on a narrative and symbolic significance.
Laura Veschi’s work places photography within a critical space of reflection, where the image is neither a simple reproduction nor an arbitrary exercise in style. As Mulas and Consagra demonstrated in Photographing Art (1973), the photographer must not merely “photograph the work” passively, but also avoid becoming the author of a new object disconnected from the artist’s original intention. They operate in an intermediate space, that of “visual criticism,” where the gaze becomes a bridge between what exists and what the lens brings to light.
Roberto Spinetta