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Giulia Morassutti\u2019s exhibition stems from this desire. While the heart of Fotografica has always been the human being\u2014observed in their fragility, their connections, their transformations, and their unyielding dignity\u2014Giulia captures its spirit and interprets it through a personal, intimate, and rigorous perspective. In her portraits, every face becomes a threshold, a presence that asks to be seen. Giulia approaches people with care and sensitivity, seeking to capture something that belongs to a single moment: an expression, an emotion, the way in which each person chooses to present themselves or, for an instant, to let themselves be seen. Within the spaces of the Monastero del Carmine\u2014which have been shaped over the centuries by different lives and stories\u2014\u201cL\u2019Attimo Fuggente\u201d invites us to pause before these faces and reflect on time and our relationships with others. This is the meaning we continue to ascribe to Fotografica: to tell the story of the world through people\u2019s stories and to create, around these images, opportunities for connection and reflection. <\/p>\n
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For five hundred years, the halls of the ancient Carmine Monastery have been filled with footsteps, faces, and diverse stories. From a religious community to the strategic presence of Bergamo\u2019s Teatro Tascabile, these walls have breathed life into countless narratives, and this central theme lies at the heart of an exhibition of photographs by Giulia Morassutti, who seeks to give form and permanence to the lives she has encountered, come to know, or merely brushed against. For if the portrait is the art of making a presence visible, the TTB accomplishes the same feat through the living bodies of actresses and actors, but with one difference: the theatrical portrait cannot be preserved; it must be recreated and reimagined each time, and it is precisely in this that its strength lies, while Giulia\u2019s photographs express the desire to freeze the moment, in the awareness of the fleeting nature of existence. The fleeting moment is the one the gaze cannot capture, because it often slips away before we can even reach it. The photographer and the subject stand on equal footing, with the camera between them, capturing the instant, crystallizing it, and reifying it, thereby making it eternal. Each of Giulia\u2019s photographs stems from a specific intent: the desire to capture the essence of the person standing before her, with the awareness that their presence there, at that moment, is something that will never happen again\u2014a unique moment in the timeline. The portraits of the people featured\u2014mostly in black and white\u2014depict friendships, family relationships, and even chance encounters. They are always close-ups, as if to confirm what Ronald Barthes wrote in *Camera Lucida*: \u201cThe punctum of a photograph is that fatality which, in it, pricks me\u201d (but also \u201cwounds me, seizes me\u201d). That fatality, in fact, stems from the gaze of the other, which Giulia seeks by taking upon herself the responsibility for the fleeting nature of time. For each face, there is one shot\u2014at most two\u2014a rigorous choice imposed by a discipline that allows for no exceptions. A raw truth emerges in her photographs: a life very different from that found in glossy magazines. For those who view the photographs, they will appear as luminous records of lives in transit, exposed\u2014physically and metaphorically\u2014in their vulnerability, which, through their faces, call into question the photographer\u2019s responsibility. What is to be done with the face of the other? One can possess it, capturing it in an image; embrace it, allowing it to appear in its otherness; or create it, constructing it through interpretation. Giulia embraces it, giving it space, in a two-way relationship: for her, recognizing the other also means recognizing herself. In a frenetic, chaotic, fragmented life\u2014one whose finitude she never forgets\u2014the artist seeks to illuminate and give form to the infinite possibilities, emotions, and experiences of each individual, and her choice of the photographic portrait as the medium through which she captures them is the culmination of this \u201cobjective.\u201d When the famous orator and philosopher Cicero used the verb \u201cretraho\u201d\u2014from which the word \u201cportrait\u201d derives\u2014the meaning he ascribed to this term was \u201cto tear someone away from themselves, to bring them back into the present\u201d; this is precisely what Giulia\u2019s portraits do. Photography captures the stillness of a moment within the continuous flow of time, a way to allow a fleeting moment of our lives to transcend the passage of time; in this sense, the presence of portraits of two people taken years apart speaks not only to the passage of life\u2014and even of death\u2014but also to the endurance of relationships as a fundamental aspect of our humanity, and to the fact that, to quote Montale, we turn precisely to the presence of an image so as not to \u201csever that face.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Giulia Morassutti (2000) discovered her passion for photography at the Manz\u00f9 Art High School in Bergamo, which she has attended since 2015. After graduating in 2019, she enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice but left in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, later transferring to the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, where she studied painting and printmaking. Her exhibition career began early: at age eighteen, she won first prize (high school division) at the \u201cDon Sergio Colombo Award\u201d with an installation and a travel journal, exhibited in 2018 at the former Oratory of St. Lupo in Bergamo. In 2022, she participated in the group exhibition \u201cQualcosa del genere\u201d at the Tullio Carrara Cultural Center in Nembro, which earned her an invitation to a solo exhibition: in 2023, she held her first solo show, \u201cInside Out,\u201d curated by Giovanna Brambilla, at the same center. The exhibition marked the beginning of an artistic exploration increasingly centered on the face of the other, the central theme of her work. <\/p>\n","time":"