The diptychs presented here are part of an ongoing project based on nature and offer a glimpse into my exploration of the water 'forms' as a subject. Water fascinates me not only for its overwhelming allure, encompassing a range of emotions, for its ultimate significance since it is the liquid of life but most of all, for its visual complexity. Entropy, by definition, is the degree of randomness or disorder in the matter. Liquid entropy results from what water elicits to me both visually and subliminally. As real as water is, it creates the most abstract scenes, with its shapes dancing and vanishing in a very short lapse of time. With its web of undulations, patterns of ripples and waves, water offers conceptual scenes which are impermanent to the observer, a fluid rhythm that never stops unnoticed rather than undetectable. My emotional relationship with this "floating world" is characterised by a sort of rarefaction and nostalgia, as in a dream where the surface becomes a flow shaping curves in a sort of blue and green dance. I have tried to get hold of these dancing forms, mostly in mountain lakes and reveal them, composing different angles and perspective visions in diptychs. In my post-production setting, I join two images to create an interplay between the near and the far, the intimate and the infinite, but also to emphasise the experience of unforeseen points of view and perspectives. They balance around a slim white line, but patterns, lines, and colours recur in the composition. As a result, borders between reality and abstraction disappear and open a new horizon.

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About
Alma Bibolotti is an Italian photographer. She was born in Bari, where she graduated in Foreign languages. Then she moved to France, where she lived and worked for six years, between Paris and Nice. Her relationship with photography started when she discovered Mimmo Jodice, Edward Weston, Mario Giacomelli, Lucien Clergue and many other masters of light whose works had a strong influence on her vision. Since then, photography is an inner journey allowing her to express her deepest emotions. Beyond the technical aspects, she likes 'challenging the rules' to highlight forms and textures. Much of her work focuses on the language of nature and it is in the natural world and in its less visible aspects that she looks for subjects to create something that resonates emotionally. As the artist says "very simple elements can sometimes evoke parallel worlds of dream and double meaning so that the outer space gives voice to my inner gaze". Alma's works have been published and exposed in international exhibitions, most recently in 2022 Trieste Photo Festival, MilanoPhotoFestival and in 2021, in The 'Transversalidades-Fotografia sem fronteiras' festival in Portugal. She has won several awards in contests such as the Tokyo International Foto Awards 2022, Budapest International Foto Awards 2022, ND photography Awards 2022 and International Garden Photographer of the year 2022 and 2019.