Description
There is a year Virginia Gerri remembers for the snow – more than the city was used to receiving. At Villa Borromeo in Arcore everything was submerged, silent, uniform. Everything except the balustrade: the wrought iron emerged from the white blanket with its curls, its volutes, its ornamental details that the snow could not erase – if anything, it made them more visible.
Virginia raised her camera and fixed that instant. The result is an image that looks like embroidery, like a bedhead with a soft blanket, like a lace drawing laid on snow. The flat grey sky provides a neutral background, removing any spatial or temporal reference: what remains is only the iron, the snow, and that silent delicacy which – as she puts it herself – recalls the sound of snow falling on snow.
A technically precise shot – 21mm, f5.6, iso100, 1/100s – yet deeply emotional in its rendering. An image that knows the value of silence.
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