Jerome de Perlinghi: Fading, American History For Sale
© Jerome de Perlinghi
About The Exhibition
Exhibition Curator: Roberto Muffoletto
The VASA exhibition by American photographer Jerome de Perlinghi opens an avenue for inquiry into the nature of reportage (documentary) and social critique.
The work of Jerome de Perlinghi offers such a possibility for the reader to build meaning(s). His work should not be read as a series of images but as a syntax, a challenge to be understood; a sequence ordered and constructed by the author. Besides the ordering of images other factors come into play. The images are black and white carrying their own references to a documentary past; images point to a time before – torn billboard images, closed buildings, aging environments (usually urban), promises of a better life and a torn and half destroyed American flag.
Perlinghi is not a passing neutral observer. He is conscious of what he is seeing and framing through the VASA exhibition. He is expressing and sequencing his notations to be experienced by readers of his text. It is here that the relationship of the reader to the experience, the construction of meaning, comes into play.
© Jerome de Perlinghi
On VASA Exhibitions:
VASA Exhibitions over the years have provided a platform for individual and group exhibitions, collaborative exhibitions with various organizations and galleries and exhibitions that follow a particular theme or inquiry such as “Where Do We Go Now” curated by Rui Cepeda and the “Kharkiv School of Photography: Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics” curated by Igor Manko.
VASA Exhibitions are international and multicultural. The curatorial team has strived to present work that not only represents the photographers but also the social, historical and cultural. As an online international project, VASA works to engage various digital tools. Video, as an example, not only offers the potential for the presentation of works, it provides the opportunity and framework for the voice of the author to be seen and heard. Through image, text, sound and animation, VASA works to expand the exhibition paradigm and provide a rich experience for the viewer (as well as the author).
VASA Exhibitions provides a viewing and research environment by archiving all of the exhibitions in their entirety. For example, the viewer may view a 2009 exhibition as it was presented and not just traces of its existence.
VASA Exhibitions (a program in VASA) includes images, videos and sound works.