Riccardo Venturi

“If, at first glance, Andrea Botto’s work appears to be about demolition, then at second glance it has a meta-photographic quality. In other words, the images and the camera are self-reflexive; the visual work offers us an opportunity to reflect on the nature of the camera itself. (…) When we view these images, we participate in a dialogue between two chemical substances: firstly the photochemical reactions which allow the image to develop, crystallise and be printed, and secondly the dynamite that Alfred Nobel discovered in 1866. Two chemical processes which mirror each other: one creates, the other destroys; one goes click!, the other goes boom!. Two moments in time when a fusion creates an image.”