Lorenzo Marottin Tiili- ja Kellarigalleriaan rakentuvan näyttelyn teokset ovat syanotypioita. Syanotypia on historiallinen valokuvaustekniikka, jossa paperi herkistetään valoherkällä emulsiolla, valotetaan luonnonvalolla ja kehitetään veden avulla. Jokainen teos on käsintehty, uniikki ja ajan ja sattuman muokkaama.
The works on view are cyanotypes – a historical photographic process in which paper is coated with a light-sensitive emulsion, exposed to natural light, and developed with water. Each piece is handmade, unique, and shaped by time and chance.
SUNLESS presents abstract works that explore the incommunicable. Variations in tone and fading edges emerge through deliberate chemical experimentation, pushing the process beyond its conventional boundaries. Rooted in chemistry, the technique becomes a means of expressing the intangible nature of inner experience, giving form to what resists articulation: void, emptiness, nothingness.
Cyanotype is typically a fast process, with exposures completed in minutes under direct sunlight. These works, however, were made during the Nordic winter – without sun – exposed slowly over the course of weeks under the dark sky. This slowing down is both technical and philosophical and becomes a metaphor for reflection.
The resulting images do not depict or refer, they aim to represent nothing. They hold no fixed meaning, but instead make space for the presence of absence, for a void that cannot be filled, only approached.
SUNLESS provides a contemplative space for meditation. The works are silent invitations to pause, to reflect, and to feel – until thought dissolves and the self disappears. The exhibition offers no resolution: only the possibility of encountering light, or the absence of it.
Lorenzo Marotti was born in Rome, Italy in 1992. He is trained as a chemist and he works with analog photography, focusing on alternative/experimental photography and exploring old photographic techniques – eventually adopting cyanotype as one of his main media of expression. The technique of cyanotype offers him the chance of combining photography with chemistry, whilst investigating fundamental questions related to existence and perception.
