About This Project

Alessio Pellicoro

The diagnosis of an advanced stage IV Hodgkin’s lymphoma offered me the opportunity to see firsthand the vital importance of photography, which has now also become a tool of treatment for me. The course of the disease and therapy I face in these months have been an inescapable invitation to think about the forced and necessary inversion my practice has undergone: for the first time I have forced my gaze toward myself, or rather, within myself. Referring back to Flusser’s theories, I am transformed into input savored and reprocessed by an endless series of algorithms constituting the “meta-bolism” of black-boxes to which I am thrown, devices and diagnostic instrumentation of all kinds (ultrasound, X-ray, CT, PET) with which I interface daily. I become raw material chewed up by a digital mind whose synapses are complex electronic processing that I imagine to be, absurdly, the developmental mechanism of an almost free interpretation of the aforementioned devices. Through various software I scrutinized and explored diagnoses, pure and unresolved technical images if not subject to human interpretation. I become voyeur, observer, explorer and above all manipulator of a body immersed in intangible matter that fills the infinity of a fictional virtual world of which the virtual fetish of myself is the protagonist. Such an operation over time has led me to realize that I myself am a black box capable of producing anomalies, masses, incongruities, results that are the consequential response, elaborated by means of “biological algorithms,” to a series of inputs sent by an external world that every day alters and contaminates intimate human nature. Mine.

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