There are worlds that no one can see, before they are recorded by a photograph. As John Berger wrote:
“What makes photography a strange invention, with unpredictable effects, is that its primary raw materials are light and time.”
LIGHT is the title of Cattani’s new project: capturing and freezing that precise moment when light draws a reality and, at the same time, transfigures it, making it full of wonder.
Taking inspiration from his own inventives, experiences, situations and personal realities, Cattani, through his gaze, imagination and ability to record diverse, futuristic, utopian and sometimes even dystopian scenarios, changes the perspectives of urban landscapes.
The origin of photography – made up of passages, traces and impressions through films and chemical processes – is deeply linked to light. Photographing, or writing with light, allows the author to investigate how he himself informs bodies, highlights surfaces, infusing everything around us with life.
What interests Cattani is the identity that changes as the hours pass, as day and night alternate in those places we think we know so well:
“[…] as I walk the streets, I immortalize daily moments when light seems to change the skin of the city, confronting us with unknown and unreal scenarios.”
