Nere & Bianchi

Women scented of black and men hidden in white are stopped and fixed by the perfect white-black of the photographer Michele Stanzione, along a moving devotional path out of time and space. The exploration of ancient, ancestral events is carried out organically: the ritual of the Battenti of San Lorenzo Maggiore, the procession of the Desolata in Canosa di Puglia and, to conclude, the Fontanelle cemetery in Naples, the key place of the controversial Neapolitan soul. “The stylistic feature of his photographs – Massimo Sgroi affirms in the preface – is anything but didactic; by recounting the story of an axiomatic relationship with what we are, Michael Stanzione reaches the perception of otherness that is typical of contemporary visual art”.