We are making history. 2010

"There is only reality: in our minds, my reality is in constant metamorphosis, which resides in my thoughts. We must challenge the photographic reality, the one we see in films". ¿These two sentences from Zbig Rybczynski articulate the intent of my project, We are making history, to initiate a paradigm for a new contemporary visual scenario. Nowadays, the chromakey can be understood as the post-modern form of the tabula rasa¿. (Danilo Correale)

Danilo Correale

1982, Napoli, Italy. Lives and works in Napoli and Berlin. According to Foucault, the legibility of historical archives is dependent on the partitions created by power. Danilo Correale¿s research focuses new attention on archives considered to be of minor importance, organically spreading little-known information in order to highlight the power structures that exist behind specific historical accounts. This is based on a circumstantial, easily explainable reconstruction of events, in which the artist collects the images produced and inspired by a historical account. The design and display of the final exhibition serves as a strategy through which the sequence of images can lose its storytelling quality, and again appear as a series of factual documents, sealed off from potential commercialisation by the mass media and, according to critic Matteo Lucchetti, "ready to resume their life as living matter in the service of memory."