COLLECTIVE FOTO MARVELLINI
Anonymia

“Anonymia” examines female identity through portraits of 19th-century women with their faces covered. Far from being a simple pastiche of the era, the series explores social masks, fragmented memory and the silences of history. The anonymous figures, stripped of facial features, embody a codified elegance and at the same time an erased identity. The deteriorating signs of the medium also evoke a fragile past, where only the posture and dignity of the subjects resist oblivion. In an age of hypervisibility, the series invites questions about the value of invisibility. “Anonymia” asks the viewer: What is visible? What is hidden? What is forgotten?

Author
Foto Marvellini is the collective fouded by Andrea and Carlo Marvellini, based in Milan (IT). Friends for decades, they started their first joint artistic project in 2011, sharing their cultural interests, as well as the respective artistic techniques.
In the project they embody two brothers, descendants of a mythical family of Milanese photographers, the Marvellini, from which also derive their pseudonyms. Foto Marvellini is a loving tribute to photography from the 19th century to the beginning of 20th.
The language of the artistic brothers is ispired by the theme of the 'fake' and identity in photography, so the collective play with the absurd, celebrates past techniques, creates credible ancestors and faithful post-mortems.
With his deliberately "deceptive" works, Foto Marvelli invites the viewer to remember that images in general, by nature, trigger and shape his emotions and his understanding of the world. Not only the AI-generated images can fool him.

Website
www.fotomarvellini.com

Instagram
@marvellini

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