Irene Momesso
Bio
Irene Momesso pierces the darkness in search of light. Influenced by her study of Dark Romanticism, she explores the night as a threshold toward light, establishing a dialogue between art history and the technical resources of photography. The low-key quality of her images invites the viewer to enter the invisible, delving into the shifting boundary of the indiscernible.
Through experimentation with photographic processes, Momesso incorporates the materiality and traces inherent to the process into this investigation of the mystery of the night and its relationship with light. In her practice, the transformation of the image accompanies a search in which art operates as a tool for transmutation.
“Night is sublime, day is beautiful.”
Immanuel Kant
Statement
Cápsula
The Cápsula project explores the contemporary use of historical systems of photographic production and reproduction, incorporating current tools such as the generation of digital negatives. Rather than simply recovering historical techniques, it seeks to understand and incorporate their material, technical, and temporal specificities into contemporary artistic practice, investigating how they shape the materiality, singularity, and circulation of the image in the present.
Cápsula brings together works produced through historical photographic processes, such as albumen printing and kallitypes. In 2025, ten artists from Studio Vivian Galban specialized in these historical processes in New York, alongside research conducted in historical archives.
Throughout 2026, this research continued and deepened at Studio Vivian Galban in Buenos Aires, together with specialists, expanding the experimentation around these processes and their possibilities within contemporary photographic practice.
Additional information
Hahnemühle Platinum Rag 300 gsm
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
