The exhibition of the project by Niccolò Bianchi and Giuditta Fullone, Silenzio eloquente, curated by Vincenzo Argentieri, opened on January 22nd 2020 at the Atelier della fotografia, in Milan.
The project started in 2014 when Niccolò Bianchi decided to photograph young women to whom he asked three questions: what interests do you have? What kind of person do you think you are? How do others see you? At the same time he asked them to choose an object or an action to cover their mouths, as an antithesis or similarity to a story they wanted to tell. Niccolò’s black and white, analogue photographs show unresolved thoughts in women deprived of social superstructures. After a short time Giuditta Fullone decided to work on the same portraits and to create an illustration that is similar in form and content. The only difference consists in the use of color: compared to the original black and white, she adds the scarlet red and the golden yellow, and those colors make the content of the photographs explode in an imaginative universe.
Each diptych consists of a photograph and its related illustration, and thirty-three of them are shown in a 32×32 cm square format. The title of the exhibition – Silenzio eloquente – aims to highlight the oxymoron of the two portraits, whose subject is the same, but its representation differ. The work is based on the shift of language from an individual’s thought to the illusion of a thing.
Niccolò Bianchi (Milan, 1989) graduated in Medical Biotechnology at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, has a Master in Bio-business and Medical Sciences from the University of Aberdeen and currently works in the field of financial management control. He attained a Screenwriting diploma at the Luchino Visconti Civica Scuola di Cinema of Milan. He has always had a passion for photography, for travel and for reportage; he started photographing on commission during events in clubs in Milan. In 2013 he decided to photograph using only the analogue technique, and from 2014 he personally develops and prints his own black and white photographs. He has been collaborating with iBirbanti Theatre Company since 2012, by producing video material for several shows (Kalissa Faust, Non si spara sugli attori, Le donne di casa Goodfellow, Au Manoir Saint Germain, Dracula, Diva’s, Macbeth) and by making two short movies.
Giuditta Fullone (Milan, 1993) has a Bachelor in Modern Literature from the University of Milan and a Master in Cinema and Media from the University of Turin, and graduated in Screenwriting at the Luchino Visconti Civica Scuola di Cinema of Milan. She has experience in illustration, photography, videomaking / film sets, organization and production of films, exhibitions and events; she also combines her artistic interests with her love for cinema by drawing storyboards. Since 2016 she creates original graphic designs for signs and T-shirts and in 2018 she illustrated Franko B’s autobiography Because of Love: Franko B’s story (Live art Development Agency, London). Since 2017 she has been collaborating with iBirbanti Theater Company, for which she directed and produced the teaser trailers of the last two shows Diva’s and La dolce confusione, and the original Macbeth‘s video-scenography.
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