Bruna Ginammi

Galerie Mazzoli is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in its Berlin space by Bruna Ginammi, an artist with a history of photographic research established over many years.
The exhibition displays some of her most significant photographic series.
Decomposition of the Matter is a series about transformation. About the very idea of transformation, at once fascinating and terrible, and its application to the organic world. What we see is as comprehensible (in the sense of scientifically acceptable, though not perfectly replicable) as it is uncontrollable. Here something unexpected happens: still life changes its sign and converts into its opposite, attractive and frightening at the same time.
In 2019 Bruna Ginammi carefully photographed the dwellings built by African fruit pickers in Rosarno of Reggio Calabria, creating the series Home. They workers were housed in a camp provided by their employers, without any form of assistance. Ginammi gives a very concrete visual testimony of this, documenting the precariousness but also the peculiarity of the structures that the immigrants' need for shelter prompted them to create.
In the last series in the exhibition, Bruna Ginammi uses her own body as a photographic subject, investigating the theme of identity and reflecting thus, on the theme of change. These "Self-portraits" are not centered directly on one's physicality, but rather on one's "self," and yet they are connected to the outside world, thus in a universal and no longer solely individual bond, capable of triggering broader reflections, where the body portrayed is therefore not the sole protagonist.
Ginammi studies genres of photography and beyond. Still life, portrait and landscape are some of the aspects that the artist most investigates; all, almost always, with a process of death and rebirth.
The meaning of his photographing is found, finally, in a phrase from the American philosopher Emerson: "one must have the ability to dignify what is humble by elevating it and to see art everywhere."