Solipsisme series
80 x 120 cm / 60x40 cm
Archival Inkjet print
//( from Latin solus ‘alone’, and ipse ‘self’) is the philosophical idea that only one’s mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one’s own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind.. //
The photographs in the Solipsism series result from a series of actions carried out in the heart of the artist’s immediate environment.
The term "solipsism" evokes a thinking subject for whom there is no reality other than the self, or at least, no reality that can be acquired with certainty. The artist explores this seemingly inaccessible reality as if it were part of a self-created state of mind.
Piaggio's photos search for this certainty, posing questions about the true existence of external reality. She seeks tactile verification, the touch that informs us about the world beyond the illusions of vision. The distance between her and reality is the one that separates the eye from the hand. The point of view remains subjective, conditioned by the extension of her arm. The objective becomes a ramification of her body. The flowers serve as representatives of this world that the artist seeks to verify and test through precise and suggestive gestures.
The "touch" of her hand, her intrusion into the softness of the flower, reveals the sensuality inherent in the plant and suggests the connection the artist strives to establish with reality, understood here as the natural world.
