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Lorenzo Vitturi, Buying Inspiration From The Market
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LORENZO VITTURI’s work is often found at the intersection of sculpture and photography and his latest project, Dalston Anatomy, saw him spend time in London’s Ridley Road Market taking pictures, making sculptures and creating collages with materials and objects he found amongst the debris of the marketplace. Vitturi’s process is largely concerned with the creation, consumption and preservation of images. The makeshift sculptures he created mimic the organic and temporary nature of the market, and their documentation is the way in which they endure after diminishing. The book is bound in exquisite Vlisco fabrics in bright patterns that are reminiscent of African markets and accompanied by a poem by Sam Berkson that layers voices from the market to draw on its disjointed and surreal atmosphere.

Vitturi – who lives locally – feels compelled to capture its distinctive nature before it is gentrified beyond recognition. Vitturi arranges found objects and photographs them against backdrops of discarded market materials, in dynamic compositions. These are combined with street scenes and portraits of local characters to create a unique portrait of a soon to be extinct way of life.

Photo: thephotographersgallery.org.uk

Photo: thephotographersgallery.org.uk

Photo: lorenzovitturi.com

Photo: lorenzovitturi.com

The makeshift sculptures he creates mimic the organic and temporary nature of the market, and documenting this by photographing the objects is the way in which they endure before diminishing once more. In the photographs we see a cacophony of texture and color: Afro’s and braids, fruit, pork, fish and balloons, bright paint and tarps used for the stalls. Vitturi focuses on the abstract but universal language of shapes, colours and composition.

“Every day people are inventing ways to present themselves and their small shops to the passing public,” says Vitturi. “It’s an endlessly creative as well as commercially competitive place that can sometimes be a little overwhelming, but it is that edgy dynamic that I wanted to reflect in my images. I was trying to recreate the identity of the market through whatever I could find there that served my vision of the place and its energy. So the coloured chalk that is used to cover some of the faces in the images is sold in little baskets on a stall on Ridley Road. Later, I found out that the chalk is used as a painkiller in west Africa for women who are pregnant. Every picture has a hidden story.” – The Guardian

Photo: lorenzovitturi.com

Photo: lorenzovitturi.com

Photo: lorenzovitturi.com

Photo: lorenzovitturi.com

Photo: lorenzovitturi.com

Photo: lorenzovitturi.com

Photo: lorenzovitturi.com

Photo: lorenzovitturi.com

Photo: lorenzovitturi.com

Photo: lorenzovitturi.com

Photo: lorenzovitturi.com

Photo: lorenzovitturi.com

Currently, his work is being exposed at The Photographers Gallery until October 19th.
16–18 RAMILLIES STREET, LONDON W1F 7LW

-via lorenzovitturi.com

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