In Maurizio Galimberti’s work, every Polaroid is far more than a photographic fragment—it is a self-contained micro-composition, an expressive unit with its own aesthetic and poetic value.
Though often conceived as part of a larger mosaic, the individual Polaroid, for Galimberti, is also a space for direct experimentation, where photography becomes painting, drawing, gesture.
In this series of Polaroids of New York, Galimberti manipulates the Polaroids by making double exposures, resulting in a double image on a single Polaroid. The artist thus does not limit himself to documenting what is there, but gives us an idea of movement and an image taken from memory.