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A slight gash, jagged with tiny holes on the top and bottom, cuts a short curve on a blank sheet of watercolor paper.
The incision looks nibbled at around the edges, recalling the work of larvae on fresh green leaves in the woods. Looking closer, we notice the fissure’s halo: a burnished shadow left by whatever source of heat was responsible for its rounded corners.
In his latest series A Fuoco (2023)—translatable both as “on fire” and “in focus”—, Luca Lupi provides the barest minimum of the three elements needed to make a photograph: a medium able to record the …