Lacerations, efflorescences, patinas, falls of matter. The fragile and lost world that Donzelli gives shape to is a poetic mirror that reflects the uncertainties of modern life.
Drown in Time, the series of images resulting from the research conducted by Donzelli during the 2020/2021 pandemic, is a lucid and disenchanted reflection on the anxieties of contemporary existence.
Those walking figures, anonymous and isolated, that populate Donzelli’s rarefied landscapes, echo the slender silhouettes of Alberto Giacometti’s works. They are images of lonely men in front of the world who, aimlessly, cross an uncertain timeless space, where nature seems to prevail over individuals.
Like a modern alchemist, through the physical manipulation of images, Donzelli achieves a balanced equilibrium between form and chaos, between figuration and abstraction.
In a permanently connected reality, the photographer rejects digital perfection, he endorses the analogue medium, he defies the storm of images that overwhelm and disorient the contemporary man. With his own hands, Donzelli drowns the Polaroids into an “amniotic fluid” that transforms them, generating snapshots of timeless places, dreamlike visions, spaces of the mind.
