At first glance, the works of Florence Di Benedetto's "Visible World" can generate a sudden and superficial estrangement: it is the noise of the background, the juxtaposition of the silent and hieratic reality of objects with an intrinsically informal terrain of action.
The project originates from an open dialogue with the past, with its exempla and its icons. Works that tell the story of the path undertaken by the artist and her core values: from the transversality of her visual and cultural background, to her faith in eclecticism and experimentation; from overcoming any rigid separation between techniques and expressive forms, to the courage to contaminate pure photography, not altered or modified a posteriori, with the manual skill of direct action on the work - in this specific case through break-in (rayage) of the support.

Beyond the dark line that runs along the profile of the photographic representation of the visible world - of the physical and concrete reality of the "things" that are touched, that have weight, that are used and thrown away, that decay and tend downwards - the space of gesture and matter unfolds, a surface that the artist scratches, tears and digs to bring to light the impossibility of aesthetic linearity and narration.
By moving the gaze on the subject, between the plastic folds of the linen tablecloth and the references to the values of painting, the scenic composition of "things" is imposed: simple, everyday, banal plastic bottles, chosen sculptures, transparent and solid forms, which inhabit perspective and they become architecture, now symbol, now reality.
Archaeological finds that imply the redemption of the vile industrial object and, at the same time, urge us to tune into the language of "things", to explore them beyond the patina of fleetingness, question them, dig into them to grasp their unexpected beauty and thus be able to love them in their brutal authenticity.

An invitation to see “things”.