White Yam #5, 2013

Fine art print on Hahnemuhle Baryta Pearl paper
47,7 x 31,6 cm
Edition of 10 + 2AP
Signed and numbered on a label

About the work
This colourful still life is created of products the photographer found on Dalston’s Ridley Road Market, located in the London borough of Hackney.
‘Over more than a year, living between my studio and the market I collected every type of organic and inanimate object and debris, found or given to me by the sellers: plastic bags, worn, mouldy planks, clothes, wigs, dust. These found objects were to form a distillation of the market as still life sculptures, a reassembly of its raw elements with my own hands, reworking the anatomies of its characters attempting to capture and communicate the essence of this unique place .’ – Lorenzo Vitturi

About the photographer
The body of work of Lorenzo Vitturi (1980, IT) investigates urban changes beyond Western cities, processes of cultural mixing and their complexities, and the movement of people and goods in a globalised world. 
Playing with the combination of reality and fiction, mixing photography, sculpture, painting and performance, he builds temporary sets in his studio, drawing from specific geographical environments. His projects focus on cities including Lagos, London and Venice and selected areas in Peru; on their colours and shapes and the communities that inhabit them. Vitturi uses selected materials in his sculptures and photographs to investigate the passage of time in a globalised world, capturing its mutations.

Vitturi's first institutional solo show took place at Foam 3h in 2013. Solo exhibitions include Dalston Anatomy at The Photographers’ Gallery (London), Contact Gallery (Toronto), and CNA (Luxembourg). Vitturi also participated to group exhibitions at MAXXI (Rome), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Palazzo Reale (Milan), La Triennale (Milan), BOZAR (Brussels), K11 Art Museum (Shanghai), Barbican Centre and Somerset House (London). Publications include Dalston Anatomy (2013) and Money Must Be Made (2017).  Vitturi won several awards including the Photography Grand Prix at the Hyeres International Festival in 2014. He was chosen as one of the winners of the Grand Prix Images Vevey in Switzerland (2018).
In 2019 Foam made the exhibition Materia Impura, which summarized ten years of research and combined Vitturi’s earlier projects Dalston Anatomy, Droste Effect, Debris and Other Problems and Money Must Be Made with works from the series Caminantes.

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