In the spring of 2017 Amalart returns to the W Museum in Iksan for the fourth time, this time with a solo exhibition. Lorenzo Sala, who had taken part in the first Korean group exhibition in 2015, presents "Human Scan – A Journey into People's Hearts", from 19 April to 19 May: a large poster on the museum's façade announces the exhibition to the city.
The project starts from a simple idea: every image must carry with it the story of the person portrayed. Sala asked ordinary people to bring one or more objects that mattered to them and to write a sentence linking them to their own lives; that sentence becomes the title of the work. The body is not photographed but captured with a scanner, one fragment at a time: each pose takes about half an hour, and the final image is a mosaic of tiles in which even the small movements of breathing remain. The result is portraits of figures lying on a black background, beside keyboards, books, notebooks and everyday objects.
A photographer by passion, Sala has always worked on the body, on light and shadow, with professional models and with people posing for the first time. With "Human Scan" his work moves from photography to a slower, more participatory device, which in Iksan closes the cycle of Italian exhibitions at the W Museum opened by Amalart in 2015.
The first exhibition in Iksan, October 2015: A Message from Italy →
