Francis Macchiagodena’s practice is imbued with a questioning of the thresholds in our surrounding space. Through photography, he explores abstraction and its relationship to materiality and the human senses. The photographs he creates question the tensions in distance, tactility, and forms of matter. They offer a reverence for the metaphysical as well as the bodily. The focus of his research incorporates sound, light, heat, and space as technical tools to engage the interpretation of perception and multiplicity as subjects. He does so in ways that reflect force, the organic, and the cosmic. Driven by experimentation and inspired by the study of light and its intersect in photography and science, the photographs explore the limited spectrums available to the human senses. This exploration not only drives his research as an artist, navigating an interpretive medium, but also his experience as a human being, understanding notions of truth and awareness on a personal level.
Francis Macchiagodena is a visual artist and educator based in Montreal, Canada. He holds an MFA in Studio Arts, Photography, from Concordia University (2020). He taught photography at Concordia University between 2019 and 2020 and continues to teach at the Visual Arts Centre. He has also lectured as an invited guest within the university setting as well as in the public art centres. Macchiagodena has exhibited work in institutions including art galleries, contemporary art fairs, in addition to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ Espace La Promenade vitrines in collaboration with Concordia University’s Fine Art and Art History faculties.
