Lay Out is a photographic series by Teresa Giannico, made in 2015. It’s a study of contemporary shared apartments in the city of Milan, found on online rental ads.
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The pictures are the diorama representations of those photographs; in my practice I use to build paper models of the found images, extrapolating and printing their textures and objects, to finally present them as photography. The aim of my research is to instill doubt on the documentary value of photography through a process of reconstruction of reality.
Teresa Giannico (Bari, 1985) lives and works in Milan. Graduated in Painting at the l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Bari, in 2012 she moved to Milan to study photography. She has been exclusively working on her personal research. From 2016, she is represented by the Viasaterna gallery in Milan.
Lay Out is one of the photographic researches selected by Domusweb among the Gabriele Basilico Prize in Architecture and Landscape Photography 2018 candidates. The Prize intends to support the growth of visual languages in photography among a new generation of artists.