Impossible Gaze #12
Origin: Room 26 – Sala di Marte [Mars Room]
Galleria Palatina
Palazzo Pitti

Constricted by the confined spaces or guided pathways, the viewer is often forced to look at artworks from obscure angles with tilted heads and craning necks. These photographs intimately express the dynamics of vision with its vertiginous and disorienting optical illusions. Through the use of acute camera angles and close-ups that are intended to impress the proximity of the object to the viewer, these photographs assimilate looking in this environment and dislocate the frontal viewpoint generally associated with viewing art.

Impossible Gaze Jo-Anne Duggan Invisible Culture, Issue 11