Life of Guangzhou - Photograph Exhibition "Roads" by Sabrina Merolla

When: 9:00 to 18:00 on September 1st to October 10th, 2010 (close on public holidays)
Where: Spot Art Gallery
Address: 14/F International Finance Place (IFP), No.8 Huaxia Road, Pearl River New City, Guangzhou (广州市珠江新城华夏路8号合景国际金融广场14楼)
Tel.: +86 (20) 38396225 ext. 171
Email: culturale.canton@esteri.it
Admission: free

In this series of black and white photographs, the artist focuses on the theme of travel as an existential metaphor. This work, diary of a journey which is still in progress, collects the images of the ongoing personal and intellectual research of the photographer. Every shot, every light and shadow in these snapshots on the road devoted to contemporary China, expresses a different question about today's theoretical and emotional worlds.

Through these dreamy and cinematic perspectives in black and white -as in an old road movie- the observer can read the daily notes about outside human landscapes, seen through the window of a train, a car, or a bus, and the dreamlike illuminations about society to which the eyes of the photographer, as a black and white film, are exposed.

Sabrina Merolla is a sinologist and photographer, born in Naples in 1977. She graduated and then got a PhD at "L'Orientale" University of Naples. Her literary and anthropological research focuses on the identities of contemporary Chinese society and their relationships with the memory of the recent past. She has been living and studying in the PRC for three years (2005-08, Shanghai). There she 'rediscovered the light', returning to photography with a totally new attitude, preferring the grainy and rough attitude of black & white film photography, but never disdaining the immediacy of digital media.

She collaborated with rock bands and web-zines in Italy and China. In May 2010, she exhibited this series of pictures at PAN-Palace of the Arts of Naples, Italy, with the patronage of the Confucius Institute and "L'Orientale" University of Naples. She lives between Naples and Shanghai.