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STATEMENT OF WORK
Alex Cassetti is a Brooklyn based photographic artist who explores new approaches to the display and format of photographic images. Cassetti brings sculptural, installation, and site-specificity aspects to the presentation of photographs in direct response to an increasingly digitized medium. His sculptural approach to photography goes beyond seeing conventional images on a screen, or flat pictures on a gallery wall. Cassetti investigates photography’s materiality, and reacts to the possibilities that expand beyond two dimensions. His studies of physical photographic objects explore spatial complexity of the image - going beyond the flat photograph and documentary recording.
Cassetti's recent project "Bending Light" explores the display of images on transparent film - presenting photographs in relationship to light, and as three-dimensional objects. The transparent prints are hung using various techniques to protrude from the gallery wall. Presenting photographs three dimensionally helps to transform the photographs into objects. Through his masterful manipulation of light, shadow, and reflections, Cassetti crafts surreal compositions that invite viewers to explore dreamlike spaces and contemplate the interplay of space and memory.