the appearance of nearness
"Di Noto has long questioned the role of photography as a tool for documentation and a practice of interpreting and constructing memory. The artist rephotographs and reworks prints, negatives, and plates, which, in addition to having documentary value, preserve the traces of time and the intervention of the photographer who originally manipulated, erased, or marked them, selecting what should have remained visible from what would have been excluded from reproduction. In this way, the artist re-mediates the images he has discovered and makes the erasures, maskings, and functional signs that emerge from the documentation the subjects of investigation, generating new geographies, visions, and constructions of meaning."