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Conceptual Series

Filippo Venturi

Photographer

Filippo Venturi

Broken Mirror

Broken Mirror is an artistic work that uses documentary language, in which I merged my vision of North Korea with that of an artificial intelligence, to which I explained in detail the result I wanted to obtain, repeating the operation hundreds of times for each image until I got an image similar to the one I had imagined.

Starting from scenes from the daily life of North Koreans, I inserted a foreign element, in the form of insects that grow ever larger and more intrusive, to the point that they seem to have control over people. At the end, people turn into insects, thus completing the domain they have undergone.

Broken Mirror is therefore the result of a compromise between me and AI, where the exceptionality of North Korean society, strongly influenced by one of the toughest totalitarian regimes in the world, which effectively isolates the country and its inhabitants, is represented through the insertion of an alien element, in a sort of Kafkaesque metamorphosis.

Filippo Venturi

Filippo Venturi is an Italian documentary photographer. His works have been published in different newspapers and magazines such as The Washington Post, Newsweek, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Internazionale, Geo. He produces personal projects concerning identity and the human condition, focusing in particular on the consequences of rapid technological progress in some parts of the world. For the past years he has been engaged in a project on the Korean peninsula, earning him the Sony World Photography award, the LensCulture Emerging Talent award, the Il Reportage award, the Voglino award and the Portfolio Italia – Grand Prix Hasselblad. His works have been exhibited in Italy and abroad in exhibition spaces like Foro Boario in Modena as "New Talent" of the Modena Photography Foundation, MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, Somerset House in London, U Space in Beijing, Willy Brandt Haus in Berlin and Sony Square in New York City.