Luciano Battagliero

Noche

Photographic series that explores the effects of monochromatic negative color. Places and figures are transformed through inversion, revealing a different kind of night: a night that is not night, shadows that are not shadows. There are other ways of seeing, and in that shift, new presences emerge.

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The top of a tall ornate column with a statue pointing outward, lit against a dark sky.
A crowd of people in a plaza framed by large stone columns, with a statue on a pedestal in the background, rendered in negative.
The Laocoön sculptural group displayed inside an arched niche, its figures appearing dark against glowing surroundings through color inversion.
An upward view inside a domed building showing a pedimented window and coffered walls, with a circular shadow cast by the oculus.
Two symmetrical rows of conical topiary trees converging toward a vanishing point along a grass path, rendered in negative.
A close-up of a baroque fountain showing a muscular central figure flanked by columns and sculptural details, rendered in negative.