Your name
Edoardo De Falchi
Place of birth
Roma, Italy
Place where you live now
Roma, Italy
3 words to describe you
eclectic freelance displace
Why do you take pictures?
Images are the most immediate and universal language.
Where do you get your inspiration?
Wherever I can. I'm constantly searching for new ideas and obsessively experimenting.
Who are your influences?
I have many, a lot. For this particular collection I could mention John Heartfield, Max Ernst, Hannah Höch, Man Ray, Winston Smith, Peter Kennard, John Stezaker, William Gibson, Philip Dick...
What determines the subject matter you choose?
For these photomontage works I mostly started from the ambience or the mood, I choose some backgrounds and search for elements to mix into it to make it more meaningful and visual.
What impact would you like your art to have?
I wish these collages could be read as part of an experimental novel, both metaphorical and science fictional, where you also have to fill some spaces and connections with your imagination. I'm currently working to shape them (as they are effectively part of a larger collection) into a sort of big freestyle novel book.
What artwork do you never get bored with?
Contemporary art is often boring, but it sometimes opens up new unexplored territories. This happens in visual arts but also in music, cinema, literature. The difficult part is you have to search and dig a lot before you find something.
Is there anything you want to add?
I believe it is necessary to deal with multidisciplinarity. My practice is generally eclectic and experimental. In making collages I try to displace myself too, but I often need to move from a field to another, not to get bored with one.
