Untitled (dwarf#1, 2, 3, 4), 2001
lambda print, about 155 x 120 cm. each



Distraction.
Cloe Piccoli, a conversation with Stefania Galegati in Stefania Galegati, Catalogue, Electa, 2005

c.p.Here we move from reality to legend. An area your work goes into a lot. What do you look for in legends?
s.g.It’s just an idea from popular tradition, which these pictures refer back to, but I don’t know of any particular legend in this case. No, someone once told me about the story of a dwarf at the foot of the bed. But it’s not important. I was interested in referring to the dwarf and to his potential condensed energy, to a possible grandfather’s room out in the country, to a late nineteenth-century piece of furniture and the atmosphere of popular legend... Like all the elements that suggest and increase the intensity of the “hole” in the photo.
c.p.Where did you get the idea for these photos from?
s.g.I got it by thinking of the possibility of making space in solid matter as though it were air. Infinitely enlarged, everything we consider as an object actually has more space in it than solid matter. Dwarfs, who are really just little people, do however have a unique intensity, which I think is strong enough even to make space inside old furniture.