The Flow of Time is the main character of the third volume of Quaderni Sessamesi. An imaginary place where either the artist and the viewer are challenged to question the representation of reality that Memory makes. Time as the natural course of things and Time as determined by a camera through its shutter are represented and compared. The rhythm of the images is marked by the blossoming of a cherry tree, from the first buds until the tree turns completely green. Time flows through the pages expanding and twisting. Some images look fragmented and blurred. Like memories that tend to alter and transform the reality of what happened.
Quaderni Sessamesi Volume III 2023
by Edoardo Hahn
Edition of 50 signed and numbered copies
Softcover 112pp 21 x 21 cm
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This book was realizedin 2022 as a ballad. Images in which I measure the space around me - dancing, moving or just sitting -are juxtaposed with images of the landscape where I lived during the same period. Alternating picturesof the landscape and myself set the rhythm of the book, first breathless and tight, then more relaxedto return finally short and unpredictable. The landscape seems impetuous, inescapable andmythological at the same time. It is like a dance or a fight between a body and a territory to find theirown space as well as between my imagination and reality around me. What I tried to do is to makevisible the identity of a place, which is my own place, elaborated by my body and brought back to thesurface by these images.
Quaderni Sessamesi Volume II 2022
by Edoardo Hahn
Edition of 50 signed and numbered copies
Softcover 104pp 21 x 21 cm
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The pictures displayed in this book were shot during the 2020 lockdown. I spent that period exploring with my camera the area around my house. At first I just took pictures of the ground as if I needed to anchor to something strong and solid. As days passed and Spring arrived I started noticing those signs of Nature that was blooming again in the midst of chaos. It was an exercise of rewriting the geography around me without reference points. I just followed the flow of my inner journey. These pictures are what remains from those past moments.
Quaderni Sessamesi Volume I 2021
by Edoardo Hahn
Edition of 50 signed and numbered copies
Softcover 40pp 21 x 21 cm
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The book, consisting of 26 diptychs, focuses on the formal relationships established between one image and the next where, even from the title, no information is given that can identify a specific place. It is a set of visual notes, fragments of geographies, details that together form a personal vision of reality. What emerges is an experience of looking.
The series is like a map that combines sensations, impressions, digressions of a personal wandering.Although the reality behind the images is not fictional, the entire sequence is a set of figurative puzzles constructed with inconsistent detail. Images are like embossing, but they don't work like documents.
They are the remains of moments that happened and saved from the incessant work of time. From a formal point of view, the series is mainly composed of close-up images, with little or no perspective vision. They are almost tabletop visions, closer to the taste of a graphic studio than to pictorial composition. An almost two-dimensional photograph.
52 Pictures 2017
by Edoardo Hahn
Edition of 100 copies
Softcover 48pp 18,6 x 27,9 cm
ISBN 978-88-942794-3-6
Published by Urbanautica Institute
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This book launched a provocation. The landscape is not something of which we can control the borders, and define unambiguously the context. I should radically reject the claim, all human, to rationalize the landscape, or to describe it, to own it, to set it aside. Everything stems from a journey that I do in California to retrace an imaginary made of pages torn from movies and video clips. I do on the strings of Leonard Cohen, trying in my own way to be free. Capturing clippings of sky, roads, buildings and sunburned cars.
In this book the landscape becomes fractal, its meaning gets impalpable and slips like sand between my hands. It seems to make fun of those who watch. The images are fleeing from the page and perhaps by our own understanding. As if a book is no longer enough to contain them. The landscape is made of pieces of memory that slowly fade away. After all we are the landscape. It begins and ends with us. And maybe what’s left is a perfume. To give it a body I imagined that no photography is really indispensable. You will not find answers in this book, but the invitation to inhabit your questions.
Landscape Materials 2015
by Edoardo Hahn
Edition of 500 copies
Softcover 104pp 20,5 x 26,5 cm
ISBN 978-88-87569-60-5
Published by L'Artiere
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Maurizio G. De Bonis "Le pieghe della realtà nelle fotografie di Edoardo Hahn."
Edmondo Bertaina "Un libro come una canzone psichedelica, un trip visivo tra fotografia e paesaggio."
Steve Bisson "Edoardo Hahn. Landscape Materials"