Laissez-faire
By: Cristiano Volk ; text by Eugenie Shinkle
Contributors: Shinkle, Eugénie, 1963- author
Publisher: Fw:Books
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9789083165837
Subjects: Artistic Photography
Other titles: Cristiano Volk :
Description: Alienation is often found at the heart of Italian photographer Cristiano Volk's work, wherein the human experience is always central. Described by Volk as 'a single, neon-hued hallucination', 'Laissez-Faire' is a meticulously curated meditation in which he uses his camera to capture the signs and symbols of capitalism and commodity culture. Individuals no longer experience reality directly, but instead live their entire lives behind screens. He collapses the usual parameters that shape our worldly existences - day and night, inside and outside, public and private, digital and real - into a feverishly imagined new universe, vaguely menacing and drenched in a cyberpunk sheen