Photographs of Fabrizio Uliana
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Abbaye de Saint-Jacut-de-la-mer (Brittany-France)
from august 7 to 20, 2025
photography exhibition and book launch
Venice anamorphic
images that capture the lagoon city, far from any aestheticization
3, rue de l’Abbaye
22750 SAINT-JACUT-DE-LA MER
Salle de l’Arbre de l’Abbaye
free admission daily from
3:00 PM to 7:00 PM
artist present on site
opening reception and
video projection:
saturday, August 9 at 6:30 PM
with interventions by:
philosopher Frédéric Cossutta
and
linguist Dominique Maingueneau
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The Exhibition
“Venice Anamorphic” isn’t just a photography project; it’s a dreamlike journey, an emotional passage through a city that eludes, folds, twists, and slowly transforms before our eyes, as if we were in a dream we can’t quite clearly recall.
After the acqua granda of November 12, 2019 – a symbolic, almost mythical event that engulfed and submerged Venice – Fabrizio Uliana felt the need to look at Venice with new, raw eyes, devoid of nostalgia but full of attention. This is a Venice that folds and recomposes itself, that never fully reveals itself, that disappears as you observe it. There’s no polemic or denunciation, but a profound sense of suspension: as if the city is holding its breath.
His images, created with an everyday tool like a smartphone, transport us elsewhere. Through circular movements and almost choreographed gestures, like a contemporary dance, Fabrizio transforms reality into unstable visions, where water becomes a distorting mirror and palaces seem like waves or memories. The photographs become mirrors that don’t reflect but question: Is this still Venice we’re looking at? Or is it already something else?
In this space of visual uncertainty, the viewer is invited not so much to see as to get lost. To “see things that don’t exist,” as the author himself suggests, to imagine a future that doesn’t yet show itself, but silently inhabits these images. It’s not about immortalizing a decadence, but about capturing this fragile and splendid moment where everything is still in balance and everything can still be preserved.
The book accompanying the exhibition – “Venice Anamorphic / Venise Anamorphique” – brings together these visions and delves deeper into them with reflections ranging from photography to philosophy, and even language. Because, ultimately, Venice is also that: a language to decipher, a tongue that changes its sound with every tide.e livre qui accompagne l’exposition – Venezia Anamorfica / Venise Anamorphique – rassemble ces visions et les approfondit avec des réflexions qui vont de la photographie à la philosophie, en passant par le langage. Parce qu’au fond, Venise, c’est aussi cela : un langage à déchiffrer, une langue qui change de son à chaque marée.
Ivana Galli
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Venise anamorphique
Venezia anamorfica
Published in August 2023 by Escourbiac (France), the book includes texts by:
- Carlo Chiapponi, photographer: on the new mobile viewpoint in contemporary photography;
- Frédéric Cossutta, philosopher: on the hermeneutic interpretation of images;
- Dominique Maingueneau, linguist: on the deconstruction of Venetian aesthetics.
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