Pasquale Proia - photography

An impossible encounter between eras and identities. Mateo Maté’s Black Venus, a reinterpretation of Canova’s Venus Italica, gathers in an intimate gesture atop a monumental staircase. Opposite her, a digital figure floats like an artificial apparition. At the top, tiny onlookers unknowingly witness a silent dialogue between classicism and the present.

Pablo Picasso, Mimmo Paladino and Emilio Isgrò in Rome, National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art: a dialogue between art and reflection, between reality and representation, which explores the relationship between artwork and viewer, generating visual overlaps and deep reflections. The transparencies of museum glass generate visual overlaps between figures and reflections, in a continuous dialogue between reality and representation, between observer and observed. The image invites us to question the deep meaning of "looking", challenging the perception of art itself.

A yellow that echoes like a trumpet – as Kandinsky might say – among dark lines slicing through silence in a mute dialogue.
A suspended image, where forms reach for each other without meeting, in a silent chord of presence.

Dry branches stretch like ink lines over a white page, evoking the delicate traces left on a snowy path, with an atmosphere of silence and abstraction.
The image is shaped through subtraction: the blinding white sky becomes a mental space, while the dark branching lines suggest invisible directions, inner journeys, and states of suspension.

A leaf suspended like a note on the staff drawn by shadow, in a red Kandinsky compared to the sound of a tuba. An autumn fragment turning into a visual echo.

The Athlete of Fano, attributed to Lysippos, crowns himself with a gesture that now seems to reveal the fragility of an identity falling like a brittle mask.
Ancient triumph dissolves into a suspended motion, one that seems less celebratory than liberating: a gentle release, like a leaf falling, revealing the face beneath the bronze.

An evocative work that explores human fragility through the abstraction of forms and textures, suggesting an archetypal return to the earth and memory, where light sculpts space with symbolic force.
The silhouette of a human figure merges with the earth, losing identity but gaining universality. Light becomes a force that evokes the idea of rebirth and vulnerability, and the work becomes a visual reflection on primordial innocence.

A single circle and its shadow remain suspended in a white expanse, where everything else is erased by the light. In the unforgiving white, geometry endures the heat. The world dissolves on this extreme threshold, where the eye wanders and the mind goes silent.

A liquid boundary between what happens and what remains within, where the shipwreck echoes even in silence. Each fragment seems uncertain. The water holds the moment when everything breaks.

A shadow moves on a luminous surface, as if it were crossing a process of slow and secret transformation. The image suggests the sensation of being trapped in an invisible web, inspired by "Non aprire mai" by Claudio Lolli. The fiery red tones evoke pain and change, a deep and necessary inner journey, creating a direct connection between the intimacy of the body and the abstract space of memory.

Constructivist echoes intertwine with visual tension, among fractured geometries and space-like typography on an urban backdrop.
Distorted characters suggest an inner and cosmic journey, turning matter into vision and the surface into an imaginary threshold between history and dream.

Two faces barely meet, like delicate gears seeking the same motion in the silence of deep understanding. A gaze that sees the other in their essence, a subtle, silent balance full of unspoken words — a spiritual embrace crossing time, reconnecting with childhood.

The tension between matter and light crystallizes into a fragile balance, a vibrant stillness that holds the gaze and speaks in a silent voice.
Layers of metal, wood and color interlace in a composition ruled by red, yellow and black. It invites stillness, listening to absence and sensing hidden harmony in surfaces.

Inspired by Richard Wagner’s drama, this vision captures the stillness before the end, when every shadow already knows its fate. The scene is quiet, yet charged with anticipation. Time vibrates in a taut balance, as if something were about to break without a sound.

Traces of pain and transformation bend within matter, evoking a face surfacing from the depths, freely inspired by the homonymous film by David Lynch.
Like skin stretched over a wounded soul, the curved surface tells a silent story. Folds become a cry, light, and memory of one who lived in shadow.

A figure vanishes within the flames, as if fire truly walked upon the skin. Freely inspired by the homonymous film by David Lynch.
The face dissolves in a luminous rush, matter turns into dream—or nightmare. It is an explosion of identity, lost the moment it burns.

A suspended gesture, a shadow that stretches in the urban sunset, tension and mystery, in a rarefied light where the heat seems to almost block the city noises, while the dark forms merge with the vegetation.
The shadow becomes protagonist, charged with emotional resonance, the human presence is almost lost in this metaphorical enigma.

An abstract bull, inspired by the sculptural language of Umberto Mastroianni, emerges from fluid and bright colours on a black background. This digital work reinterprets the symbolism of bullfighting in a contemporary key, fusing tension and movement in a vibrant and personal vision.

Broken lines and metallic reflections form a visual maze suspended between light and shadow, evoking disorientation and inner search.
A dark weave of geometric shapes leads the eye through a mental maze of doubts and turns. Every light is partial, every path uncertain.

A motionless gesture, like a held breath, carved in the stillness of rarefied light.
Everything trembles, suspended between waiting and memory. Shadows searching without touching, slowly fading into time.

Summer, melancholy, light, silence, and memory condensed into a subtle figure that hovers on the border between visible and absent. Stretched towards an immobile horizon, as if drawn to something it cannot reach, the presence seems to evaporate in the light. The beach becomes a mental place, a fragile threshold between waiting and disappearance. Inspired by “On the Beach” by Neil Young.

A suspended instant as the prelude of Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini unfolds in the air through movement. The motion shimmers with restrained grace, as if music were born from the space between notes.
An unseen butterfly crosses the scene, leaving sound in its wake.

A bluish light emerges from an opaque and cracked surface, like an interrupted passage between two worlds. The composition, simple yet intense, evokes silence, solitude, and fracture, transforming a surface into a symbolic boundary. This work speaks of isolation, memory, and absence.

A suspended moment between body and thought, where the shadow of a bowed head stands sharp against a rough wall.
A relaxed hand, immersed in silence, gently falls beyond the edge of the real. The image evokes an intimate threshold, a space of reflection where presence dissolves into mental impression. It invites the viewer to perceive absence as trace, and light as a medium between what is and what lingers.

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