The photos presented here, were taken over a period of five years in Milan,
Amsterdam and Ibiza. They give an insight into the world of parties,
understood as safe and creative spaces where people can feel free to express
themselves. What these shots are intended to reflect on is precisely the
freedom of expression that characterises the people who inhabit these
spaces, making them their own. The human body lets itself be transported by
music, dance and synergy with other bodies, thus taking on a different
meaning and entering a collective dimension.
All photos were taken in analogue on 35 mm film.
Sole was born and raised in Milan, I graduated in New Technologies of Art at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts with an experimental research thesis on art
documentary, accompanied by the short documentary film Sulla Strada shot
entirely in a working-class street in my native district. In the same year with
the video Human Attitude I participated in several exhibitions, including one at
the Frankfurter Westend Galerie in Frankfurt. I later attended the documentary
course at the Luchino Visconti Film School and began to use the mediums of
video and photography with an experimental and research-oriented
documentary perspective, finding a method that aims for authenticity but
transcends genre boundaries. For me, photography and video are tools to
generate memory and leave tangible traces of our experience in this world,
which is why I believe in documentation as a necessary practice, especially to
narrate the contradictions and problems that plague our time and the most
marginal situations.
