The photographer Piergiorgio Sorgetti (1988) undertakes a quest to explore the material memory of constantly evolving forms, akin to a form of visual archaeology. His photographic practice focuses on the surreal potential of images, examining the interaction between natural and cultural elements. Sorgetti collects photographs with the aim of probing their original meanings, transforming each image into a stage of an exploratory journey into the complexity of contemporaneity. Among his series, today we focus on Not Yet – No More, an unprecedented project that challenges the traditional concept of time and reflects on the tension between the not yet and the no more. Sorgetti engages in an intimate reflection on time, exploring the context of contemporaneity through an unconventional analysis of current circumstances.

Not Yet – No More invites the viewer to evaluate the time we live in, abandoning the clichés of the present to focus on the untimely, the discarded, and the outdated that characterize the contemporary. The series captures the sensation of a long anachronism, a fragment of coincidences and contradictions that creates a suspended space. In this space, Sorgetti portrays an entire generation undergoing structural changes, navigating between urgencies and delays, in a continuous tension between the individual and the collective. Sorgetti challenges temporal linearity, revealing a dimension where time manifests in unpredictable ways, contested between the not yet and the no more.

Ph credits and courtesy Piergiorgio Sorgetti