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WAILING WALL I, JERUSALEM (2/12)
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Color photograph of a Jewish pilgrim in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, by Ferrante Ferranti.
The artist explores the rites associated with the Elements – water, fire, air – in sanctuaries inhabited by the Spirit. Ablutions and immersions, gestures of purification or prayer of Hindu or Buddhist, Hebrew or Jain, Christian or Muslim faithful, embody matter, and help us to cross the mirrors of appearances to access the Saints of Holies.
Length : 0.39 in / 1 cm
Height : 35.43 in / 90 cm
Width : 23.62 in / 60 cm
Weigth : 2.2 lb / 1 kg
Artist : Ferrante Ferranti
Technique: Digital photography
Support: Pigment print on baryta paper (Canson Fine Art Baritta), laminated on Dibond
Dimensions: 90 x 60 cm
Number of copies: 21 signed and numbered prints
Year: 2012
Inspiration: A thousand-year-old place of prayer, the Western Wall is one of the last visible remnants of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. Steeped in history, fervour and silence, it concentrates centuries of hope and recollection.
In this photograph, Ferrante Ferranti moves away from reportage to enter into a contemplative approach. His gaze lingers on the very material of the wall — the skin of time — on the vibration of the stone crossed by the light. The bodies become discreet, almost erased, giving way to a larger presence: that of a place inhabited by collective memory.
Through a sober framing and extreme attention to textures, Ferranti reveals the interior dimension of the site. The interstices where prayers are slipped become so many thresholds between the visible and the invisible. The Wall then appears as a surface of passage, a space of resonance where faith, history and humanity intersect.
More than a documentary image, this photograph offers a meditation on the sacred: a suspended time, where the stone seems to listen.
Ferrante Ferranti
FRANCE
Born January 13, 1960 in Algeria, of a Sardinian mother and a Sicilian father. He took his first photograph at the age of eighteen, a wave in Belle-Île-en-Mer. Passionate about Fernand Pouillon’s book, Les Pierres Sauvages, he began training as an architect in Toulouse, which he completed at Paris-UP6 in 1985 with a diploma in Theaters and scenography in the Baroque era. Traveling photographer, he has been involved for thirty years with Dominique Fernandez in a joint exploration of the Baroque and the different layers of civilizations, from Syria to Bolivia via Sicily and Saint Petersburg. His photographs dialogue with the texts of the writer, who defines him in the album Itinerrances (Actes Sud, 2013) as “the inventor of a language which links the sun to the ruins, in search of the meaning hidden in the forms” .
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