Art Opening
Visiones DF-ectuosas
Fabrizio Viglioni
Thu, Apr 30, 7pm
Atelier Flor Acosta
Tata Nacho 8
Col. Guadalupe

DF-ective visions
By Ana Quiroz

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Are there elements that interfere in capturing reality? Is photography a moment of distraction or merely an imitation of life?

In square kilometers of perfect disorder, with misery dished out all over the place, the “last city”—that is, the Distrito Federal of Mexico City—is a cornucopia where everything is happening at any given moment.

The immensity and the wretchedness of the metropolis inspire this artist. The city captivates him in diverse manners and distinct places. In his first exhibition of photographs, Fabrizio Viglioni discovers in this absolute chaos his own particular cues. His medium permitted control over distinct realities—the chance encounters with strangers, the stillness of a composition of objects or the movement and play of light in the city night.

is found objects—whether humans or objects—speak of the desolation of the overpopulated metropolis. But they aren’t a dramatic representation; they are an instantaneous reality accompanied by the aura of colors and magic or the murkily dark environment. In these unique characters, whose minds are luckily somewhere else, exists a cynical happiness of living within, which on occasion is its own hell.


In his “Naturalezas muertas”, or “Still lifes”, you can imagine or experience the contrived stories of the juxtaposed objects. Ironically, the trash in the streets can contain the hopeless footprints of man’s misery.

In the photographs of the city night, the masses are seen with a sinister halo, the darkness endures and the shadows play with illumination and movement.

Fabrizio has compiled this group of photographs from his visits over three years to Mexico City. Also an expressive experience, he certainly demonstrates his restlessness in his pursuits as a photographer.

Between the constant movement and the strange silence, between the happiness and the madness of the Distrito Federal, these photographs are visions of a place where nothing is perfect.