Description
There is a moment that lasts less than a heartbeat — the one in which a drop detaches and falls, while another is already there, perfectly spherical, suspended in mid-air before dissolving. Virginia Gerri has frozen exactly that moment.
Sospesa — Suspended — is a black and white macro photograph that transforms physics into poetry. The droplet at the centre of the image is a world unto itself: perfectly round, transparent, reflective — inside it, shapes and reflections are visible, a tiny and precise geometry that only a 50mm f1.8 lens can render with this clarity. Above it, the thread of water still attached to its source, with another small drop forming. Below, the focus softens into a blurred, undefined background that isolates the two subjects from the rest of the world.
The black and white is not an aesthetic choice but a narrative one: it removes colour to concentrate everything on what is essential — form, light, surface tension, that impossible balance that lasts a thousandth of a second. This is the stolen time Virginia speaks of: not the time of grand events, but the invisible time that happens always, everywhere, and that no one ever watches.
A work that brings into any room the silence and precision of an unrepeatable instant.
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