After Palermo
2024
After Palermo
2024
After Palermo is a new series of double-exposure photographs featuring human figures visually meshed with natural forms and materials. Inspired by recent travel to his partner’s ancestral homeland of Palermo, Rosetzky creates layered, intimate portraits by harnessing the decorative elements adorning the ornate facades and interiors synonymous with the Sicilian city. Theatrical tropes of baroque sculpture and architecture emerge organically throughout the artist’s investigation into the surrealist strategies of spontaneity, randomness and chance. Through this analogue process of overlaying photographic exposures, Rosetzky configures transient scenes that explore subconscious thresholds and the multifaceted nature of identity.
Credits: Photographic Assistant: Ruiqi Qui
Image scans, postproduction and printing: Peter Hatzipavlis (Final Grade)
Models: Sean, Harry and Thabani
Film development: /DEV and Film Never Die
Framing: Arten
David would like to thank Sean Meilak, Nikki Wilson and Simon Bronson
2024
After Palermo is a new series of double-exposure photographs featuring human figures visually meshed with natural forms and materials. Inspired by recent travel to his partner’s ancestral homeland of Palermo, Rosetzky creates layered, intimate portraits by harnessing the decorative elements adorning the ornate facades and interiors synonymous with the Sicilian city. Theatrical tropes of baroque sculpture and architecture emerge organically throughout the artist’s investigation into the surrealist strategies of spontaneity, randomness and chance. Through this analogue process of overlaying photographic exposures, Rosetzky configures transient scenes that explore subconscious thresholds and the multifaceted nature of identity.
Credits: Photographic Assistant: Ruiqi Qui
Image scans, postproduction and printing: Peter Hatzipavlis (Final Grade)
Models: Sean, Harry and Thabani
Film development: /DEV and Film Never Die
Framing: Arten
David would like to thank Sean Meilak, Nikki Wilson and Simon Bronson

After Palermo, 2024
Archival pigment print
49 x 72.5cm

Horizon, 2024
Archival pigment print
49 x 72.5cm

Folklore, 2024
Archival pigment print
62.5 x 42.5cm

Between Wakefulness and Sleep, 2024
Archival pigment print
62.5 x 41cm

Grotto, 2024
Archival pigment print
62 x 40cm

Stay in Love, 2024
Archival pigment print
62.5 x 42.5cm

Shadow and Blush, 2024
Archival pigment print
62.5 x 47.5cm

Have Faith, 2024
Archival pigment print
62.5 x 39cm

Bloom, 2024
Archival pigment print
49 x 72cm
David Rosetzky
After Palermo
Sutton Gallery
27 July – 24 August 2024
After Palermo
Sutton Gallery
27 July – 24 August 2024


