Roberto Palomba, a world-renowned architect is the cofounder of Palomba Serafini design and architecture studio. Palomba has always been passionate about photography, his debut photographic exhibition Vortex in Ibiza is open to the publich at OBRA23 Gallery until 30th November 2023.
© Roberto Palomba - Vortex, exhibition view.
“I believe we are part of the same soul.
A single primordial generator.
We are fragments of the same one perpetuating through time expanding into space,
a single conscious will.
We draw contiguous souls to us, the most similar fragments, to perpetuate life in eternity.
There is only the soul.
Energy is the glue that unites the individual entities.
I believe there is no life after death.
I believe that the soul implodes, fragmenting endlessly, generating other souls.
Just as a cell multiplies by dividing, generating an accomplished existence,
so does the primordial soul continue to expand.
We only live in the moment, reconnecting.
Empathy: love, friendship, affection, hatred, indifference.
Fragile, immaterial feelings.
I believe that every fragment of matter contains part of the primordial essence
every conscious or inert being is imbued with life.
Reconnect'. - Roberto Palomba
Palomba's exhibition will last until the 30th of November, after having been extended thanks to the
great success and attention received, and aims to take visitors on an exciting journey through
myth, chronicle, and a deep call to life. The “Vortex” exhibition is the result of a project dotted with elements that relate to Roberto Palomba's expressive concept.
Each image is imbued with a soul, a being, a life, and it expands through the moments of birth, life,
death and regeneration, performed by Giorgio Piantelli, the model who has shared the project with
the architect since its inception.
“This project was born in collaboration with Giorgio Piantelli, who is not only the model, but who has
shared this project with me from its genesis.
A continuous exchange between two generations, made of empathy, affection, and mutual curiosity,
about our worlds and visions, so distant in time. We moved for a short time to Sardinia, my homeland,
shooting voraciously in a flow of inspirations and emotions. We had drawn a rudder and written texts
to support what was our project, the wild nature and changing weather shaped our ideas into
moments that we have tried to collect in these images.
The pure light that reverberates from the sand dunes on which a fallen angel lies, or the slow sunrise
in the icy water of dawn from which his figure emerges, were the frame, sometimes not always easy,
that we shared, often in total silence, letting the movements, shadows and elements connect us
through the lens".
Roberto Palomba
The images depict human figure confronted with the elements in a symbolic journey to represent the stages of the project, so, for example, water has a limbic significance, similar to amniotic fluid, and represents the theme of rebirth, just as all the other elements take on meaningfulness.
The images taken expose day and night lights, and in the latter, the body migrates towards something unknown, with an ever-present figure symbolizing the theme of the transition.
The stone staircase, leads to an elsewhere: a dark sea, is intertwined with the motionless figure, similar to a chained Prometheus, suffering eternal martyrdom, embodying the very essence of humanity.
One of the most powerful elements of the exhibition is the nude figure representing truth, in the pitiful
act of covering the blood in the waters of the Mediterranean with a white shroud.
Roberto Palomba seems to emphasize the denial of an afterlife, on the other hand supporting the
idea of a perpetuation of life that seeks to expand.
The didactic photographic approach of 'Vortex' aims to bring to life a series of mythological and
aesthetics elements, transporting the observer's innermost feelings into the news of today.
"In photography I look for immediacy, unlike when I deal with projects as an architect and designer,
where several time passes from the moment when I have an idea, until its development.
Usually, this idea then changes over time evolves, sometimes changes, sometimes vanishes,
decays.
Instead, photography for me represents immediacy, that feeling, that emotion, that idea, fixed in the
very moment in which I thought of it, at the very moment when it happens. For the first time I had the
desire, or perhaps the courage, to tell this part of myself."
Roberto Palomba
The photographic project Vortex contains a collection of thirty images, twenty of which have been selected by Roberto Palomba for the exhibition.
Obra23 is a project conceived and created by Leonardo Balli, founder of the design studio Balli
Interiors. In an unexpected location, positioned at the gates of the historical center of Ibiza city and
at the foot of the "Pitiüses" hills, there is a space of over a thousand square meters where art,
photography, and international design converse. Obra23 represents contemporary artists who, in
collaboration with curator Roberta Guigli, explore new forms of artistic expression, including the
combination of traditional, experimental, and digital techniques.
About the exhibition:
Title: “Vortex”
Photographer: Roberto Palomba
Performer: Giorgio Piantelli
Date: 28 September- 30 November
Location: Obra23 - Carrer del Rio Arni, 23 Can Bufì - Ibiza
Contatti: [balli@balliinteriors.com] - [+34661330114]
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