Guido Guidi, the Photographer Who Reminds Us That Truth Can Be Found in Shadow

Vogue

14-05-2025

Guido Guidi: Interview with Alessandro Rabottini, Curator of the Exhibition Dedicated to the Photographer of the Essential, On View at 10 Corso Como.
There are artists whose practice, over time, settles into a form of thought that eludes the logic of spectacle. Guido Guidi is one of them. Through a steadfast dedication to photography as his sole medium and a gaze that appears modest yet is profoundly subversive, Guidi has shaped an aesthetics of the essential—where every peeling wall or reflection of light becomes a silent epiphany of time's passage.
Da un'altra parte, the exhibition dedicated to his work at 10·Corso·Como originates from the visionary eye and curatorial sensitivity of Alessandro Rabottini, one of the most perceptive and radical voices in today's contemporary art scene. With his ability to move fluidly across media and disciplines, Rabottini has built a project that does more than simply present Guidi's work: it listens to it, inhabits it, questions it.
The exhibition moves along the thread of a 'poetics of attention'—an invitation to linger, to truly observe, to be touched by shadow—not as a void, but as a place where light, space, and memory meet. The curatorial choice to break apart the photographic series in favor of poetic and formal tensions reinforces the idea of photography not as description, but as evocation; not as affirmation, but as inquiry.
We spoke with Rabottini about this project, which stems from years of reflection and desire—about the political value of attention, the quiet radicality of Guidi's visual language, and the potential held by an image that appears 'empty' to restore an ethical stance toward the world.
In an age dominated by urgency and overexposure, Da un'altra parte reminds us that to see is already to think, that in shadow lies a form of truth, and that perhaps it is only through what escapes us—through emptiness, silence, and reflection—that we can truly learn to inhabit the world again.