Lorenzo Marotti

The works on view are cyanotypes – a historical photographic process in which a surface is coated with a light-sensitive emulsion, exposed to natural light, and developed with water. Each piece is unique, shaped by light, time, and chance.

Made on heavy cotton duck canvas, these abstractions explore themes of perception, emotion, and the incommunicable. Variations in tone, subtle transitions, and fading edges emerge through deliberate chemical experimentation, pushing the process beyond its conventional boundaries. The technique becomes a means of expressing the intangible, unspeakable nature of inner experience. Rooted in chemistry, the process gives form to what resists articulation: void, emptiness, nothingness.

The artworks are left untitled, refusing definition, categorisation, or containment within language, leaving space for meaning to emerge – or remain absent.

These works offer a contemplative space and are silent invitations to pause, reflect, and feel, until thoughts dissolve and the self disappears into nothingness.

Lorenzo Marotti was born in Rome, Italy in 1992. He is trained as a chemist and he works with analog photography, focusing on alternative/experimental photography and exploring old photographic techniques – eventually adopting cyanotype as one of his main media of expression. The technique of cyanotype offers him the chance of combining photography with chemistry, whilst investigating fundamental questions related to existence and perception.

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ARTWORK

‘Untitled’, 2026

Cyanotype on cotton canvas
Sizes range from 290 x 210 cm to 210 x 150 cm, as well as 145 x 95 cm and 70 x 45 cm.
The artwork in the street-level showcase is 410 x 70 cm.

17.9.-18.12.2026

Lorenzo Marotti