MASTERS OF P

We live in a world increasingly seeking knowledge of everything.

Technological and mathematical evolution has brought us to a present made of automatisms that solve many problems of daily life. We can often allow ourselves to ask and receive with ease.

Recently, however, we have begun to deprive ourselves of pure imagination.
Images and texts can be sorted on command. From Chat GPT to Midjourney. We can describe an image with prompts and find it delivered to us with the illusion of having been its creators, when instead we are spectators of a reproduction decided not by our mind, but by an algorithm.

The creative act is reduced to zero. The experience lived to achieve a vision is cancelled. The imagination is then thrown into this cauldron made of infinite images present online.

I wanted to take a step back and I would like you to do it too.
I want to take you on an internal rather than external journey.
Where the most important photographs of this project are the ones you create in your mind, where they will remain untill you decide to translate them with the only possibile creative and direct tool: your body.

I’m involving many experienced Game Masters. Figures who make the narration of the imaginary their most important gift. Because not only they tell of fantastic places and adventures, but they lead those who experience them to play with a fantasy that is always personal and that changes in cohesion with others while always remaining a different version for each player. Because with the mind we all see in a unique way.

Role-playing games involve the use of the 20-sided die, the D20. Numbers are synonymous with precision but also with randomness, if we think about the object in question. In a world where we avoid surprises, this dice fascinates me, with its unpredictability.
Each of the Game Masters is represented by a number. The meaning may be more or less obvious, but it doesn’t matter. I like to think that whoever looks at that number and the photos of his Master can imagine a meaning.

“Masters of P” hides part of the name. It can be “Puppets”, as in the famous Metallica song re-evaluated in Stranger Things. But it can also be “Prompts”, like the lines of text useful for requesting images made by AI. And it can also be “Photos”, if we think about seeing through the camera. A title that is also, partially, to be imagined.

An ongoing multi-series work in 1:1 format, which when faced with closure always finds a way to take you to IMAGINABLE places.