Alessandra Sormani
Uncle Aldo
Aldo’s Ices
OLDER POSTS
Older Posts was an online live art project that transported my teenage self into the modern world of the Facebook environment. When social networking first became popular in the early 2000’s – as an artist, it was the perfect medium to explore recurring themes in my practice regarding identity, reality, memory, family, history, life, religion, friendships…boys…girls…me.
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HANGOVER
Hangover is a full flash, wide angle, one shot, no edit project. It is a series of portraits of people with the first shock of the morning after – the guilt and embarrassment upon waking; eyes glued with sleep and mascara, dehydrated skin blocked with foundation. The way I take the photo is critical to the project – I want the viewer to see every detail of impurity in the skin and the initial look of shame or confusion in the face.
My Father
Living Room
This series of photographs looks at the relationship people form with their living room and particularly their television.
A living room typically conforms to a set layout of furniture (sofa, armchairs, coffee table, bookshelves), which, more often than not, centres on a television. It is, nonetheless, a personal space, as it is the place that people feel able to relax at the end of the day and where they feel at home.
Here, in front of the TV, perhaps with close family or friends, a person’s behaviour is undoubtedly different from when they are outside – at work, in the supermarket, in a bar – and coming across strangers and less familiar surroundings. This very private space in which people watch TV is, of course, quite unlike the very public space that appears on the TV they are watching. But that distinction is not always so clear and is something I have been looking at by photographing people in their own homes. Certainly, the line is blurred in the act of setting up and photographing such a scene.
