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Concrete Island

1996

What happens to objects that are no longer useful? We might respond that usually they are thrown in the wastebin, but that would be insufficient, because the question is a metaphysical one. Bergson posed the same question and responded metaphysically: when something is no longer useful it begins, simply, to be. Gilles Deleuze, The movement-image Concrete Island is a series of photographs of objects thrown into a dump or simply left at some street corner in the suburbs. The pictures are shot from the objects' “point of view”. The idea was to take the pictures from the object's side, from the side of the things' world. It is not the objects who have lost their function and identity, it is rather their owners and the world who have lost the capability to see the things' function and identity.

  • 2021 Home Less Home
    curated by Maria Fratelli, Casa della Memoria, Milano
    © Paola Di Bello
  • 2021 Home Less Home
    curated by Maria Fratelli, Casa della Memoria, Milano
    © Paola Di Bello
  • 2021 Home Less Home
    curated by Maria Fratelli, Casa della Memoria, Milano
    © Paola Di Bello
  • 2021 Home Less Home
    curated by Maria Fratelli, Casa della Memoria, Milano
    © Paola Di Bello
  • 2018 Stati di Tensione
    curated by Carlo Sala, Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello Balsamo-Milano, Italy
    Courtesy MUFOCO
  • 2017 Marge e altri paesaggi
    curated by Luca Panaro, Fattori Museum, Livorno, Italy
  • 2017 Marge e altri paesaggi
    curated by Luca Panaro, Fattori Museum, Livorno, Italy
  • 2016 Paola Di Bello. Milano Centro
    curated by Gabi Scardi, Museo del Novecento, Milano, Italy
  • 2016 Homeless' Home
    curated by Raffaella Perna, Frittelli Arte Contemporanea, Firenze, Italy
  • 2016 Homeless' Home
    curated by Raffaella Perna, Frittelli Arte Contemporanea, Firenze, Italy
  • 2012 Peripheral Vision: Italian Photography in Context, 1950s-Present
    curated by Antonella Pelizzari, The Berta and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, New York, United States
    Courtesy Hunter College of Art
  • 2011 Uno sguardo italiano
    curated by Elio Grazioli, Fotografins Hus, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 1999 Concrete Island
    Luciano Inga-Pin Gallery, Milano, Italy
  • 1998, Sold out
    No admittance, Milano
  • 1998, Sold out
    No admittance, Milano
  • 1998, Sold out
    No admittance, Milano

© 2018 Paola Di Bello