It's not in a faraway country, it's not an exotic city, it's a blank sheet of paper. Google, Altavista and Yahoo know nothing of this place which sounds so enticing. We know dances of the very different kinds: from indigenous peoples, from dance contests or folk fairs. Between a dance of joy and the dance of death, there are ecstatic, devotional and erotic dances.
They exist in all cultures, on every continent, in every country. They all share a devotion to music, rhythm and emobided movement. Artists and photographers capture this movement, this atmosphere, record it on a still white piece of paper and create images, images full with a tension, an atmosphere and a power of their own.
One photographer dances with a camera, the other expertly employs the software Photoshop. These images do not appear as chronicles, but as fabrications like the title of this exhibition itself. Marco Ambrosi, born in , lives in Verona, Italy and came to photography as an autodidact. In addition to his commercial photography, painting has inspired much of his independent work.
The people in his pictures are break dancers. Space, floor, ceilings and walls become an open surface where bodies dance themselves into new dimensions. They dance powerful athletic figures and combine in the picture without holding the usual perspective, in the electronic beat to new signs.
Marco Ambrosi has freed himself from the one central perspective of photography and decided for his images. Usually, she says, she likes to dance and sing a lot and takes pictures of herself doing so. For the series on belly dancers, she asked a friend to model for her. Through Suzanne Banning's camera, movement blurs. The dancer, their body, clothing, light and color merge to create a transcendent glow that becomes an expression of the intensity of engaging with the joy of creation.
