Andrea Camiolo (Leonforte, 1998) and Arianna Zanetti (Palermo, 2000) collaborate on multidisciplinary photographic projects. The two have been in a relationship for four years and through their passions for science, cinema, music and photography they develop a visual research based on scientific theories and new languages of art. Andrea Camiolo is a student of photography, after the scientific diploma he moved in 2017 to Turin to begin his studies at the European Institute of Design. In 2020 he obtained his bachelor’s degree in photography with top marks. He is currently attending the two-year specialist course in photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania. Arianna Zanetti is a medical student, after the classical diploma she moved in 2018 to Catania to study at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Catania. She is currently attending the third year of the course of study.
About Neurodynamics of a love relationship – words by Andrea Camiolo and Arianna Zanetti:
For the realization of this project we asked ourselves how to visually represent the love relationship that unites us as a couple, finding answers in neuroscience.
In neurobiology, a love relationship can be divided into two phases: falling in love and a bonding phase. The first is marked by the release of certain biochemical mediators such as dopamine and NGF. In this phase, the areas of the cortex that underlie desire, reward, and sexual excitement are active. Conversely, areas responsible for logic and reasoning are inactivated. The second phase is characterised by “bonding” and the passage to a phase of greater serenity and formation of the couple’s relationship.
This is how the idea of representing our love relationship was born, going to explore, with the method and scientific rigour, the neurobiological processes within our brain, and then repropose them to a possible viewer through some visual metaphors. We, therefore, produced and combined different types of images: from a small sculpture that recalls the molecular composition of dopamine to the neuroimaging of some sections of the brains of people in love, from the NGF sequence inserted into a computer terminal and screenshotted to a plant that alludes to the connection of the synapses of our nervous system.
