RESEARCH
How does Existence manifest itself?
This question is the starting point of Marco Simonelli’s artistic research.
Rather than pursuing a predefined photographic style, each project begins with an inquiry. Photography, together with the visual, technical and conceptual languages required by each investigation, becomes the means through which that question is explored. The visual language is therefore never predetermined, but emerges from the research itself.
Because each project originates in a question, research always precedes the image. Photography is not the ultimate goal, but one of the forms through which the inquiry becomes visible. The research approaches the manifestations of Existence through three complementary fields of investigation.
Vita explores Existence through the human condition: the formation of the individual, the transformations of the body, relationships, time, and the possibilities of a presence that extends beyond individual identity.
Materia investigates Existence through the material world. Matter becomes the field in which thought discovers unexpected relationships, transforms familiar forms, and opens up new possibilities of configuration in space and time.Ektos, from the Greek ektós (“beyond,” “outside”), explores the manifestations of Existence through visual forms that express immaterial concepts. The images move away from the ordinary representation of reality to construct configurations through which to question conditions, relationships and possibilities of being.
These three fields are neither thematic categories nor separate bodies of work, but complementary perspectives arising from the same inquiry. Each project develops its own visual form, determined by the nature of the question from which it originates.
Together, they form a single body of research. Their coherence does not depend on uniformity of subject matter or style, but on the continuity of the inquiry: to question how Existence manifests itself through different forms.