In Vito Falcone. Transparencies, presents water as a playful device and a frozen flow, a vital element shared by a community and the focal point of a repeated ritual action. Falcone captures its parabolic instant, the moment of maximum expansion of the gesture, before the water falls back and disperses. In this suspension, the image holds a collective energy destined to dissolve, fixing what is, by its very nature, ephemeral.
As in the lesson of Cartier-Bresson, the poetics of the privileged moment is central. Yet in each shot, what Falcone modulates with particular effectiveness is another material as unstable as water: light. It is light that structures the images, sculpts the bodies and transforms the event into vision, recalling the legacy of masters such as Jodice, Berengo Gardin and Koudelka, protagonists of a black-and-white aesthetic tending towards a dimension of sublime intensity.
The catalogue accompanies the visitor along a temporal arc of over twenty-five years, restoring the narrative force of a body of work that also encompasses the transition from analogue to digital. And yet, beyond a different image grain, the photographs appear removed from time: fragments of a single, uninterrupted performance that repeats itself, both identical and ever-changing, constructing a shared visual memory.
Vito Falcone
Transparencies
Edited by Bruno Di Marino
72 pages, 47 illustrations in black;
paperback with flaps, format 220 × 240 mm
2026
ISBN 978-1-913554-06-4
GBP 20.00
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