The gallery is a family space to which I am strongly attached. In 1974 my father opened a film shop, Spot 2, in this part of Toledo Street, on the opposite sidewalk, and this house was his office, which later became my home for many years. Here I hosted artists from all over the world who came to the city to work and some of them I invited them to participate in the inaugural exhibition.
Actually, I wanted to start my adventure with a personal story by selecting works made in Naples in over more than twenty years by photographer friends who inspired me and with whom I shared with moments of life, the passion for photography and love for my city.
The Americans Michael Ackerman and Adam Grossman Cohen, the Norwegian Morten Andersen, the Swedish Martin Bogren, the French Richard Pak, the Florentine Lorenzo Castore, the Neapolitan Luca Anzani, belong for me to a ‘family’ of photographers in which emotional ties are intertwined with artistic correspondences. Even with different languages and scripts, we all share the same approach to photography intended as a subjective and emotional expression of one’s way of being and living the world.
The title Andamento lento (Slow pace) also recalls the movement and a time of a photograph that comes from the depths, from feelings, from doubts, from obsessions, from dreams.