TITLE: Volti Aletografici / Alethographic Faces

The term aletography—“writing of truth”—is a neologism coined by the author to define a photographic practice that challenges the distinction between the registration of reality and the construction of the image. The works presented here belong to this research, developing and radicalising its implications. In this project, construction is concentrated on the face, transforming this tension into a direct confrontation between presence and alterity.

On the model’s face, fragments of printed paper are overlaid: portions of faces marked by the violence of war. These elements do not coincide with the face that hosts them; they remain misaligned and retain their material autonomy. In this lack of coincidence lies a distance that cannot be bridged, a fracture that resists any synthesis.

Aletography puts the very idea of unity into crisis. The face becomes a field of interference in which heterogeneous elements coexist without resolving into a single form, exposing reality without softening or simplifying it.

Unlike digital manipulation, this tension is produced entirely within real space, under the same light, at the moment of exposure. What appears has been physically placed in front of the camera and has impressed the film. In this sense, aletographies also operate as a political gesture: not through declared content, but by acting on the regime of visibility, withdrawing the image from the logic of rapid consumption and indifference.

These images are both constructed and fully real. In this coincidence lies their status: a practice that brings construction back into the world, opposing the proliferation of verisimilar and deceptive images.

AUTHOR: Federico Perricone (Italy)

My background in architecture, together with my experience as an assistant director and storyboard artist, my interest in pre-cinema and early cinema, and a strong inclination toward manual work, have shaped my visual research toward a material and craft-based understanding of the photographic image.

I currently work as a teacher and continue my photographic practice in a non-professional context.