NEVER SEEN . MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2024
Simone Bossi
Light Within, Can Lis, 2024
Some spaces embody a profound spiritual essence and ask for a certain state of mind to be experienced.
A while ago I was a selected artist for a residency program by the Danish Art Foundation at Jørn Utzon’s Can Lis in Palma de Mallorca in Spain - I believe this was the case.
The beginning was impactful and I found myself on a dynamic path without any references: the apparent simplicity contrasted with its hidden complexity pushed my mind and my body into a perpetual endless and unclear discovery, day after day. I soon started to photograph but each shoot I tried was an unsuccessful attempt to fix something that could not be fixed and perhaps just a reaction to the sea, to the wind, to the storm, to the sun, to the light, to the trees, to the shadows, to the sound, to the silence, to the stones, to the absence, to the presence, again and again.
The house was intense and only the acceptance of its elusive condition might have processed an introspection and a chance for an intimate expression. The impulsive need for visual notes vanished.
The initial disorientation became slowly a rhythm of being in this space and a natural approach to the time going through it. Suddenly, I was unconsciously part of the architecture, or maybe - I could now say - I was even the house itself.
A few days later, an extraordinary winter light emerged within the ordinary.
Simone Bossi is a photographer with an architectural background based in Italy. He studied architecture in Milan and Seville. After five years of working as an architect in Italy, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, he decided to dedicate himself entirely to photography. As a self-taught photographer, he continually works on personal projects in addition to commissions, mainly in film format. Through his indeterminate fragmented images, he tries to reveal the feelings and atmospheres of the space produced after an introspective intimate process. His work is regularly published on major architecture websites and magazines. He travels and works for architects and editors all over the world.
