The Dimension of Things

Sobre el libro The Dimension of Things de Alessandra Spranzi publicado por Viaindustriae publishing al 2026:

Conceived as a long-form reflection on a practice unfolding over more than two decades, the book seeks to render the complexity of a body of work that moves across photography, collage, found imagery, drawing, and video, tracing its development from its initial articulations to the present. For Spranzi, photography and video are, first and foremost, ways of seeing and of reimagining the world. Rather than privileging technique, her attention is directed toward the elementary gestures of the photographic act—looking, enlarging, reducing, reproducing, reassembling—understood as actions through which the image is continuously analyzed, displaced, and rewritten. These processes generate bodies of works in which fragments, objects, and memories are staged, and in which the familiar is subtly unsettled by slippages and suspensions of meaning. The volume articulates the evolution of Spranzi’s practice while foregrounding a set of recurring motifs that persistently traverse and structure her research, such as the tension between scale and intimacy, the circulation and transformation of images, and the oscillation between reality and marvel. The publication features original contributions by Cecilia Canziani, Ilaria Gianni, Estelle Hoy, Quinn Latimer, and Simone Menegoi, whose essays offer historically grounded readings, critical perspectives, and poetic deviations that run alongside and in resonance with Spranzi’s work.