Photography of poetry: becomings of fabulation, expanding durations and instantaneous movements

Abstract

The passing of time in Alessandra Sanguinetti's photographs refer to aspects of the moving image if we assume its inherent qualities of change and duration. Those are images of an encounter between cinema and photography which contaminate each other reciprocally with its own processes by expanding towards each other. There is a real durational quality that comes from the referent (the daily life of the photographed characters) which turns up into fabulation giving access to other beings and other specificities of time, all of them living in the image. That is the realm of the imaginary documentary in which images evoke bifurcations, take shape and gain movement inasmuch as they cease to allude to a given and objective notion of the real referring rather to a broader notion of time as indeterminate forms of duration. The ten years that goes by during the photographic essay 'The adventures of Guille and Belinda and The enigmatic meaning of their dreams' appears therefore to be shot in a single afternoon. The durations and becomings in the passage from the characters childhoods to their adult lives - or from a superficial game to an intense performative encounter with theirselves and Sanguinetti - are based in a free indirect speech form. This particular photographic fashion of the free indirect speech comes to light by the means of apparatuses, understood in a broad sense. Those apparatuses guide the photographic and relational processes leading to the creation of slits between objectivity and subjectivity that ultimately act in order to favor temporal and immaterial aspects in the images.