Paolo Salmaso

I was born in Battipaglia in 1978 and I am now based in Munich. Photography is my language of research, a way to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary through the dialogue between architecture, color, and perception. I consider myself self-taught: I built my artistic path with curiosity and constant experimentation, studying the works of artists and photographers who deeply influenced my gaze – from the minimalism of Donald Judd and Ellsworth Kelly, to the surrealism of Magritte, and the visions of Luigi Ghirri, Candida Höfer, and Michael Wolf. My style emerges from the intersection of minimalism, surrealism, and infrarealism. Minimalism guides me toward the essence of pure forms and lines, surrealism opens doors to visionary dimensions, while infrarealism allows me to go beyond appearances, uncovering hidden details and unseen atmospheres. What interests me is not only the image itself, but the emotional tension it can create: my photographs are meant to evoke silences, suspensions, inner vibrations, turning architectural spaces into intimate and poetic experiences. I often work with strict symmetries, architectural geometries, and intense colors, which become both protagonists and narrative elements. I like to introduce movement, through motion blur, as a dynamic force that lets the images oscillate between reality and abstraction. Within this balance, the everyday acquires a new identity and becomes an invitation to slow down the gaze, to perceive what usually remains invisible. Through my work, I seek to build a deep connection between space, color, and emotion. I believe that the gaze is never neutral but always interpretation: for me, photography is a bridge between the concreteness of the world and its inner dimension, where what we see intertwines with what we feel.