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vertitas statement - Marco Simonelli - Formalux

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VERITAS
Truth Emerging from Uncertainty

Existence never fully coincides with the form through which it manifests itself.

Matter is not static. Through transformation, instability, and dissolution, something takes shape and begins to emerge. Veritas explores this passage: the moment when life surfaces from matter and human presence gradually becomes recognizable.

The images do not depict an already formed reality. The figure emerges through uncertain, fragmented matter, traversed by light and movement. What appears is not yet a definitive form, but a presence gradually coming into being.

It is within this condition that truth takes shape. Not as something concealed behind the image, waiting to be revealed, but as something that emerges through the very process of transformation. The uncertainty of matter thus becomes the condition through which life becomes perceptible.

Photography does not seek to establish a definitive truth. It makes visible the moment when matter loses its stability and life emerges from what constitutes it. Truth does not reside in a completed form, but in what continues to emerge through transformation.

In Veritas, Existence manifests itself in the passage from matter to life: not what matter contains, but what continues to emerge from it.




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