Between the Coney Island of WeeGee, the suburban America of Stephen Shore and the southern liturgies of William Eggleston, Percoco’s Puglia loses its geographical borders to become a place of the soul, a place that, for the photographer, is at the same time “home” and unexplored territory.
Writing in his visual language through video and photography, Percoco constructs a world of lazy Sundays, of bellies and butts, of pasta and sauce and clothes hung out to dry, of ripe figs that appear like alien creatures with their disturbing sensuality, from whose bodies fruits and colors overflow, without filters or half measures, in all their brutal, lush naturalness.

 

Piero Percoco, born in Apulia in 1987, debuts with the on the international photographic scene through his Instagram account @therainbow_is_underestimated, the channel through which he continues to pursue his personal study. In his pictures, the concept of SuperNatural – the theme that runs through the exhibition cycle created by Irene Alison for the Rifugio Digitale – acquires the generous and carnal form of a physicality that bursts its seams, shows its age, yells and sweats, filling the entire frame and disregarding every rule or judgment.

Canicola. Piero Percoco

Weight 0.5 kg
Dimensions 14.8 × 21 × 1 cm
Pages

44

Year of publication

2023

Languages

English

Printing

colour

Binding

stapled

Availability

available

edited by Laurea Andreini


English edition


8.00

ISBN: 9-788855-211-352