Within image, 2003

Chiara Pirito’s works with video and photography are wrapped in a patina of familiarity. In fact, the artist tries to silently work her way into the lives of others so as to grasp their habits, states of mind and uncertainties, stepping into that comfort zone in which we tend to feel most as ease. However this condition is merely apparent, due to a physical nearness between her and her subjects rather than a genuine intimacy that has finally been achieved. Pirito scrutinises her prey, draws close to them and captures them with her lens before immediately letting them go, like strangers in the crowd with an unexpressed potential of stories to tell. [...]