Publisher/Witty Books

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American photographer Melissa Catanese presents "The Lottery," a collection of works by her. Based in a privately collected photo archive called "A Library of Books and Printed Matter," she combines anonymous and journalistic photographs with her own photography to examine the documentary nature of photography and the arbitrariness of narrative. Her ongoing interest in the collective memories we unconsciously share is characterized by her approach to questioning the very act of looking at photographs. This work intertwines images from different contexts—crowds and isolated figures, fragments of disasters, and landscapes of space exploration—intersecting in a fluctuating manner the anxiety pervading modern society, premonitions of disaster, and hopes and doubts for the future. Historically, this work bridges the tradition of found photography with contemporary visual research, positioning it as a practice that blurs the boundaries between truth and fiction. The work raises the question of what basis we rely on to choose hope in a chaotic world. Its allegorical composition evokes the viewer's memories and invites us to gaze toward a future with no answers.