Luigi Greco - EISE (Everything is Something Else)
EISE an investigation into photographic language. The images try to communicate in various ways, from symbolism to archive, from image as code to installation, always the same photograph: “Bliss”, the hill photographed by Charles O’Rear, which has become the iconic background of Windows XP. In this study on representation we want to show how much the context, in photography, be strong and bearer of meaning. In fact, it always seems to add something more, a cultural, visual- perceptive layers, photo-realistic elements that cannot be completely subjected to “direct” communication. In this way, the repeated image is dispersed. The series contains 6 similar still lifes that aesthetically and symbolically contain the iconic language of Charles K. Bliss, the Blisssymbols. These can therefore be read “aesthetically”, or read by translating the code of the signs used, leaving out the proposed aesthetic system. These photographs are a study on the concept of perceptual knowledge referred to Frank Jackson’s “Mary’s room”.
