A VOJAGE AU BOUT DE LA NUIT
BY NIKI LECK
Edoardo Pasero’s visual research range from an intimate to a more documentary view, and it is mainly focus on gender identities and body perception.
He met Joao Linneu during a journey, they became friends and then decided to collaborate. Almost by chance. As Joao told «Edoardo had some new photos that he showed me. I liked the work yet he had no idea what to do with it. So I proposed him to make a book, and he asked me to do a project together. It was great because I felt challenged to look for some images of mine that could have a dialogue with Edoardo’s. I also had plenty of new material waiting for a reason to be shown.»
The book ‘The heart is the amorous organ of repetition’ results from this encounter. A project that rejects formal solutions and points directly to the stomach. A reaction to the chaos of existence expressed through nomads thought that generates an elusive sequence of photographs, made of referrals and re-significations. Gilles Deleuze’s influence emerges. It is a duet connoted by a simple complexity.
Pasero and Linneu’s work is a “Voyage au bout de la nuit”, an ephemeral and scathing exploration between dream and reality. They propose us a world of copies, where the difference is always reduced into analogy, negative, and therefore identical.
The rhythm of sequence is given by an alternation of subjects and emotional perceptions, which generates a stratified repetition that is never redundant. Where Edoardo cuts Joao resew, creating a schizophrenic dialogue. A continuous examination that compares, measures and research obsessively everything in its path.
Their wild aggressiveness hurts. Loneliness and disorientation permeates the observer. Then we can feel that the author’s persistence consists in an effort to grab the realm even if not possible.
Desire and desperation came along and suddenly their world is not so far anymore, and astonishingly it might sound familiar. This is probably the most interesting aspect of their project, the power of Pasero and Linneau’s imaginary. They engage the viewer with the promise of an hallucination that slowly reveals itself as an awakening.