Hylonicum

Light and its residues, by Nicola Polloni

HYLONICUM

Hylonicum is organised as a set of parallel inquiries. Each section follows one thread of a single hypothesis: that photographing light makes visible the networks of functions, relations, materials, and geometries that ordinarily remain hidden. The sections below are entry points – not categories. You can enter anywhere, the threads cross.

Black-and-white photograph of a man working on a small boat pulled onto the shore, with the sea, mountains, and sailboats in the background.

ITERATIONS
Places returning in altered forms.

MARGINS
Human life where appearances loosen.

Dark frontal portrait of a red-haired model with long hair falling straight beside her face and a blue bow visible behind her shoulder.

REFIGURATIONS
Identity displaced into other forms.

Ornate stone façade with central arched portal, decorated windows, lamps, and a passage visible through the entrance.

SPATIAL FORMS
Space articulated through passage and limit.

Curved horn-like architectural form rising above tiled surfaces and a striped building beneath a textured sky.

OPERATIVE FORMS
Matter organised into function and action.

Two cyclists climbing with visible effort.

RECORDS
Shared life recorded through encounter.

On the ideas behind this structure, see the Project page and the working Notes.