DéVoilées & Early Works
Solo Show
A. Galerie

23rd January 2019

From January 23 to March 16, 2019, A. Galerie in Paris presented DéVoilées and Early Works, a solo exhibition by Alessandro Vasapolli curated by Arnaud Adida.
The exhibition brought together large-scale prints from two pivotal photographic series that mark the beginning of Vasapolli’s artistic research into the instability of perception and the limits of visual representation.

The Early Works series laid the conceptual and technical foundation of Vasapolli’s distinctive method: an in-camera process that uses custom-built optical filters, hand-painted backgrounds, and calibrated lighting setups to alter the visual information recorded by the camera. These images investigate the boundary between abstraction and figuration, offering a reflection on how light and form can generate perceptual ambiguity without relying on digital manipulation.

DéVoilées, shown alongside, introduced a more intimate and symbolic dimension. In these works, the human figure appears partially concealed, often seen from behind or enveloped in soft atmospheres, questioning both the act of looking and the dynamics of exposure and withdrawal. The series explores the threshold between visibility and disappearance, revealing how presence can be articulated through suggestion rather than assertion.

Together, the two series offered a coherent overview of Vasapolli’s early investigations into photography as a perceptual device—one that does not document reality, but instead interrogates the mechanisms through which reality is seen, filtered, and understood.