These images are part of a long-term project and visual research into the possibility of representing, through photography, a technology and science that has been particularly important in recent decades and at the centre of major technological developments.
The daguerreotype, the first photographic process in history (coinciding with its discovery in 1839), has been identified by recent studies as one of the earliest examples of nanotechnology. Dealing with infinitely small things, with visibility and invisibility, with light and matter, nanotechnology seems to have a special relationship with photography.
Through the use of scientific images made with powerful microscopes and photographs taken in the laboratories of the most important nanotechnology centre in Italy, There's plenty of room at the bottom is a project that seeks to create visual connections about one of the sciences that deals with what we cannot see.
The project involves the use of different materials and photographic techniques, including daguerreotypes, whose properties are somehow related to nanotechnology, from both a historical and a more contemporary point of view.
Some of the works in this project will be realised thanks to SIAE's Nuove Opere 2023 call.
