METRONOM

Del resto i costumi cambieranno molto, is a group exhibition featuring Annabel Elgar, Niccolò Morgan Gandolfi, and Eeva Hannula.

The exhibition offers an invitation to move, relying on the pleasure of the eyes and objects that, in their magical transformation, change function. Annabel Elgar repurposes embroidery canvases, turning them into backgrounds for her staged constructions. In line with her handcrafted approach to creating objects and scenographic elements, the drawing style in this new series of works is defined through cross-stitch. Always balancing between recognition and imagination, Elgar’s scenes—though stripped of the photographic magic in this particular work—find an essential, unsettling, and mysterious narrative dimension, which remains equally seductive.

Niccolò Morgan Gandolfi is a collector of relics—relics of photography, as he calls them. In his meditative—and obsessive—wandering, he collects objects which then become subjects of his photographs. Flight Formation is a composition of spent bullet casings, relics of hunting activities. Without altering the state of the objects in their photographic reproduction, Gandolfi leaves the composition exposed and impeccable: rows of casings, chromatically aligned, seemingly propelled from the wool and metal cage that the artist has placed them in. The flame, the explosion, the violent gesture slip into a level of abstraction that captures the gaze and invites the viewer to touch the surface, as if it were the skin of an animal.

Eeva Hannula’s State of Uncertainty is an attempt to stretch the everyday dimension of things, objects, and alter their meaning. Through a layered process that blends post-production, the use of prisms, and binocular lenses, Hannula’s images become like poems that give voice to experiences in ways that ordinary language cannot express. This uncertain territory, between what is said and unsaid, between fact and fiction, is open to the spectator’s playful mix and match, caught in a polarity between the ordinary, the familiar, and the unsettling.

The artistic works of Elgar, Hannula, and Gandolfi present inanimate objects deliberately presented as animated, within a dissonant and conflicting dimension that cannot leave one indifferent—an inexplicable privilege of certain works that manage to become what they are.

Annabel Elgar (1971) lives and works in London. She holds a Master of Arts in Photography from the Royal College of Art. Recent exhibitions include NUCLEUS – Imagining Science, Noorderlicht Photofestival, Netherlands (2017); Photography is Magic, Aperture Foundation, New York (2016); Setting Out, apexart, New York (2016); Contemporary Photography in North-Western Europe, Fondazione Fotografia, Modena (2015).

Niccolò Morgan Gandolfi (Washington D.C., USA, 1983) lives and works in Italy. After attending the Riccardo Bauer Photography School in Milan, he graduated in Visual Arts and Performing Arts from the IUAV University of Venice. In 2010, he lived in Los Angeles, where he developed a photographic research project on the urban nature of the city, recently published by Metropolis Books. He occasionally works as an architectural photographer and has collaborated with various editorial outlets, including Domus and Casabella.

Eeva Hannula (Helsinki, FI, 1983) lives and works in Helsinki. After earning a Bachelor’s degree in Aesthetics from the University of Helsinki and a Bachelor’s degree in Photography from the Aalto University School of Art and Design, Hannula completed a Master’s in Creative Writing at the Critical Academy of Helsinki in 2020. Her works are part of private collections in France, Finland, and Switzerland.

Del resto i costumi cambieranno molto
Metronom, Via Carteria 10 / 41121 Modena
June 24 – September 2021