NOCTI

Paolo Dell’Elce | Nocti

Curated by Maria Letizia Paiato

Opening: Thursday, 18 September 2025 at 6:00 PM

AAIE Center for Contemporary Art | Rome

Exhibition open until 12 October 2025

 

On 18 September 2025 at 6:00 PM, the exhibition Nocti, a photographic project by Paolo Dell’Elce curated by Maria Letizia Paiato, opens at the AAIE Center for Contemporary Art (Via Sermide, 7 – Rome). The exhibition will remain open to the public until 12 October 2025.

 

Nocti is a work dedicated to the theme of night, unfolding as a visual narrative within the gallery spaces. Paolo Dell’Elce’s photographs are arranged like blotches of color and clusters of signs that, interspersed with white walls, appear as fragments of writing: suspended words, traces on imaginary pages, almost like a diary in progress.

 

In the critical text accompanying the exhibition, curator Maria Letizia Paiato emphasizes how Nocti investigates darkness, night, and above all light, returning to the viewer a sense of an elsewhere. In this exploration, the work takes on a philosophical and utopian dimension, capable of transporting the gaze toward a metaphysical and emotional landscape.

 

Dell’Elce’s images become an infinite repertoire of dialogues between nature and culture, ultimately outlining a new visual, mental, and conceptual landscape, where the two poles finally coincide.

 

Paolo Dell’Elce is a photographer and theorist of visual languages. Since 1985, he has exhibited in Italy and abroad. His works and publications are held in prestigious public and private institutions, including: the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Cabinet des Estampes, M.O.M.A. Library in New York, Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Musée de la Photographie in Charleroi, State Center of Photography “Rosphoto” in Saint Petersburg, Ken Damy Museum of Contemporary Photography in Brescia, and Accademia Carrara in Bergamo (Colombo Donation). In 1993 and 1995, he was among the winners of the national phase of the Kodak European Panorama of Young Photographers award. From 1997 to 2007, he directed the Abruzzo Museum of Photography “Giuseppe Moder” in Città Sant’Angelo (PE).

 

Agency: Delloiacono Comunica; Courtesy: FLR | Fondazione La Rocca.


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