Statement of Practice 2025

Graham Cassano uses film cameras, historical printing processes, spatial disruption, phenomenal obscurity, and chaos, to explore repressed ruptures in experience, history, and time. Photography pursues the visible, but too often at the cost of forgetting the ineffable substrate that supports sense. Cassano’s is an archaeology of experience, and excavation is unavoidably destructive. What’s left is the skeletal architecture of the image, self-negating, and, consequently, transparent. By revealing the imaginary structuration that otherwise mystifies experience, each assemblage or print becomes an ostensive gesture, pointing to the space beyond perception. Each image erases itself.

September 2025