Patricia Canino
Transfiguration
Digital photo print on aluminium, 
black PLEXI 8mm
48x31cm, 1/8, 2023
 
After studying cinematography at the National Institute of Performing Arts in Brussels, Patricia Canino directs short films on Art, notably, “On n'a que soi: Fernand Khnopff”, Grand Prize for image quality at the International Art Film Festival, (Museum of Modern Art in Paris) and “The holy watch over the sleeping city”, commissioned for the opening of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
When she devotes herself to photography, from cinema she keeps the sense of staging, the sense of framing and "off-camera" and particularly the work of light which sculpts the forms, accentuates the contrasts and enhances the shine of materials. From shooting to printing on the most unexpected supports, her images become her place of experimentation, she combines film
and digital, photographic and non-photographic techniques towards an ever more plastic approach to picture. When she specializes in working with a 20x25 inches Polaroid camera using lighting and cinematographic techniques, she discovers the possibility of transforming the very body of the image. The long exposure times and the Polaroid process open up the possibility of creating a
metamorphosis of shapes and colors to evoke a more unreal, more poetic world. The Polaroid emulsion transfer on “Velin d’Arche” watercolor paper brings it another dimension. The photographic material becomes one with the texture of the paper. The image becomes tactile, like an engraving or a charcoal drawing.
In 1999, she received the “Best Color Print” Prize with a fashion serie for Issey Miyake at the 6th European Polaroid Final Art Awards.
In 2000, she received the “European Best Color Print” prize at the First Polaroid International Photography Awards at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris.
Far from her studio and the composed lights, always attracted by the immensity of the expanses of snow, water, clouds and ice, she regularly travels to the extreme landscapes of Lapland, the hot springs which emerge from the ice of Iceland, the high tides of the beaches of the North Sea and meeting the monumental sculptures of icebergs drifting on the west coast of Greenland. Through different digital processes, images become material for transmutation in search of their inner light. The vibration of the bursts of solarized negative and positive lights gives us the feeling of a world
of the origins and the end of time.
 
Latest exhibitions
2021: Personal exhibition "Lux inTenebris" at the Galerie Rielle in Paris and editionof an art boxset published by Editions Hemeria.2023: Exhibition of large format photographs for the exhibition "Yves Saint Laurent: transparency"at the Cité de la Mode et de la Dentelle in Calais.2023: Photographs exhibited at the Palais Galliera in Paris as part of the exhibition "Azzedine Alaia,couturier, collector."
2023: Exhibition in Venice of photographs taken from "Lux in Tenebris" selected by "It'sLiquidGroup" at Palazzo Abatelis.2024: Exhibition of photographs printed on aluminum taken from "Transfigurations" selected byexhibition curator Carmela Loiacono on the theme "Be Yourself - Be Contemporary" at the LegaNavale di Matera (Italy).
2024: “Locked Inside” selected by "Artstmeeting International " Exhibition at the Grand Casino inKnokke (Belgium).