Lay Out
Teresa Giannico
Teresa Giannico’s research instills doubt on the documentary value of photography trough a process of reconstruction of reality. Her works are the result of a series of consecutive steps, which shape a clear stratification: the subjects of Lay Out, once the original pictures from online rental ads are downloaded, are printed, mounted on cardboard, arranged in a diorama, re-photographed and re-printed in small and large sizes. Instead of creating a perfect illusionistic machine, perspective reveals the illusion of representation within a precarious and unbalanced world.
Teresa Giannico (b. 1985) is an Italian artist based in Milan. After graduating in Figurative Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts of Bari, she specialised in Drawing and Painting, while developing a strong interest in set design and theatre and growing ever closer to photography. In 2012 she moved to Milan and attended the Master in Photography and Visual Design at NABA (New Academy of Fine Arts) and worked as an assistant together with the photographers Paolo Ventura and Toni Thorimbert.
After having displayed her work for the first time at Plat(t)form 2015, held at the Fotomuseum in Winterthur (Switzerland), she was asked to display her work on the occasion of the Fotopub Festival in Novo Mesto (Slovenia) and at Circulation(s) in Paris. In 2015, she was shortlisted for the Francesco Fabbri Prize for her work Lay Out. Over the last year and a half, she has concentrated exclusively on her own personal research, focusing on the creation of new series and projects. Se has been selected for Fotografia Europea 2017. Since 2016 she has been represented by Viasaterna.