Aim In Time _Enrica Magnolini_

Enrica Magnolini solo exhibition
curator Paola Riccardi
@ ualuba.org Art Educational Center
1G, Tosio street, Brescia, Italy

Aim in Time is a long-time project developed without nor obligations or constrictions.
Just a few analog rolls per year, two maximum. The first shots were taken in 1999,
the last ones in 2016.
The visual research of Enrica Magnolini originates from the fascination for the work of
Francesca Woodman, randomly discovered at the end of the 90s with the volume
Providence Roma New York, still pretty unknown in those years, if compared to the
actual acclamation surrounding the work of the American photographer. Enrica was
struck by Woodman shots because of the clear and substansial possibility to
communicate one-self. She perceived, and at once loved, the expressive strenght
which all those images can evoke: their meaning of intrusion in the existensial and
autobiographical work of the subject. She was seized by Woodman's freedom of
showing herself so intimately and of her personal persistence in every image. She
experienced an instinctive affinity both with her as a person and with her poetry, even
though surprised by her young age. By telling about herself, the creator of Aim in
Time declares: “ I felt those images vibrating in me as if they belonged to me, as if
they were part of my own past. (…) So I started doing photographic experimentations
by turning the lens towards me. Since that moment I have never stopped.”
Overwhelmed by this emotion, Enrica Magnolini created the first self-shots in a
spontaneous way, especially motivated by the curiosity to experience herself as a
subject in front of her own lens, but very soon she would feel the desire to keep on
doing it. She portrayed herself in only a few occasions, in the city, in both usual and
temporary places, in the dearest homes, mainly indoor [ ....]
Exhibition catalog ISBN 9788890128233
Art Director: Davide Anni
Cover: Linda Alborghetti Marco Bellini
Photo exhibition: Michele Zanotti
Catalog Design: Anna Guzzi