MIA PHOTO FAIR 2025

Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting is glad to announce our participation in

Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting is glad to present a show at MIA Photo Fair 2025 featuring three contemporary artists from different countries: Chinese photographer Lin Zhipeng, aka 223 (Guangdong, 1979), the French duo Mazaccio & Drowilal, aka Elise Mazac and Robert Drowilal (1988, 1986), and Italian artist Sara Rossi (Milan, 1970). The exhibition title at MIA Photo Fair 2025 is Unexpected Dialogues, as all three artists employ photography to juxtapose disparate elements, triggering an ongoing reconfiguration of visual meaning—where interpretations oscillate between the poetic and the absurd, the familiar and the surreal—ultimately making their images surprising, ironic, and humorously subversive.”.

A photographer representing a generation of Chinese youth who came of age in the 1990s and 2000s, Lin Zhipeng (Guangdong, 1979) built a photographic project that gained international recognition after being published through a blog. The protagonists of his images are friends or acquaintances met online, with whom the artist forges an intimate connection through the photographic medium. At the core of his work lies an exploration of sexuality as an act of liberation—an uninhibited expression. By documenting the romantic and emotional relationships of young Chinese people, Zhipeng creates a photographic grammar rooted in free associations that create a language more allusive than explicit: his compositions of objects, flowers, and bodies evoke a sentimental atmosphere reminiscent of great East Asian filmmakers such as Wong Kar Wai. Spontaneity is the defining feature of Zhipeng’s work, where natural light, vibrant interactions, and traditional analog techniques shape a strongly distinctive aesthetic.

Mazaccio & Drowilal (1988, 1986), two prominent figures in post-photography and the appropriation of imagery from the digital iconosphere, consistently create visually bold juxtapositions to provoke critical reflection on our ability to interpret and use photography as a communication tool in the era of social media. In their series Le Meilleur Ami du Chien / Dog’s Best Friend, they focus on the dog as an iconic element of contemporary digital culture, a guaranteed “click-bait” subject on social networks. By juxtaposing canine heads with Romantic landscapes reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich in an analog and digital collage technique, the duo humorously critiques the modern tendency to attribute human-like emotions to animals. This entirely artificial projection generates a strikingly ironic effect.

Sara Rossi (Milan, 1970) creates works that merge technology with the recovery of archival materials—postcards, photographs, amateur film footage—constructing narratives that unfold in a timeless atmosphere. The work presented at MIA Photo Fair 2025 is the ongoing ABC series, which offers an in-depth investigation of peripheral urban areas in Italy, drawing inspiration from Luigi Ghirri’s Viaggio in Italia. Rossi focuses on the symbolic role of commercial signs in relationship with the landscape: isolating individual elements while simultaneously placing them in dialogue, she creates genuine visual poems where words form unexpected associations infused with irony and existential depth.