Flavia Gandolfo

Flavia Gandolfo’s works wager on a distinct approach to the relationship between photography and reality. Gandolfo emerged as an artist in the late 1980s, influenced by the visual codes of portraiture and direct photography. Soon thereafter, she began to question photographic realism through the manipulation of the printing process and transitioned toward more experimental uses of photography as a medium. Her distrust of the medium’s apparent objectivity, however, did not entail giving into the critical longings of photography but rather embarking on a search for political meanings beyond the “truth effect” of the image. – Miguel A. Lopez