Umbra Mentis is the name under which Giuseppe Satriani signs his work as a conceptual artist. His subject is the crack — the point where two orders of the real are forced into a single image and the seam between them is left visible, never resolved. After three decades in photography, he found in artificial intelligence a second tool to give form to what the lens alone could not capture. His work grows from one conviction: shadow is the necessary contrast that makes light shine.
Most often the crack is evidential, and there the method is the one he calls AImagine: the work begins from a photograph — his own, or found — something that was actually there, before a lens, and generative tools extend it beyond its own borders. Sometimes no document exists, and the crack is constructed within the image itself. Intention before technique: AI is the tool, the mind is the author.
He explores the cracks in reality: what an ordered world excludes, forgets, or deliberately hides.
A Dodho contributor since 2020, his work has appeared in ARTDOC Magazine and ARTELLS Magazine, where one of his images was selected as the cover (Vol. 4040). He lives and works between Bilbao and Italy.
Awards
- Winner — Fotonostrum AI Visual Awards 2024, Barcelona
- MUSE Awards 2023 — Gold & Silver
- EPA 2023 · VIEPA 2021
- IGPOTY 2018 / 2019 / 2022 — Commended & Highly Commended
- Pollux Awards 2019 — Honorable Mention (series Colored Phantasmagory)
- Premio Arte Novara 2017 — Digital Art (Pesce Volante)
Press Kit
Collections
- Médecins Sans Frontières, Madrid
- Centro de Fotografía Isla de Tenerife
- Tecnalia Research and Innovation Foundation, Bilbao
Publications
- Memoria Immaginata - book
- Emotionage (Micrografías y Emociones) — published by Libros.com, born from a community project on Facebook Giuseppe founded and led, funded through crowdfunding
- Self-published books: Fotopoesie · Anni di Piombo · Llamada del Atlas
- ARTDOC Magazine · ARTELLS Magazine (cover, Vol. 4040)
- ICM Photo Mag
- Dodho Magazine — Contributor since 2020, 20+ essays
giusatriani@yahoo.com
Press Kit
Umbra Mentis is the name under which Giuseppe Satriani signs his work as a conceptual artist. His subject is the crack — the point where two orders of the real are forced into a single image and the seam between them is left visible, never resolved. After three decades in photography, he found in artificial intelligence a second tool to give form to what the lens alone could not capture. His work grows from one conviction: shadow is the necessary contrast that makes light shine.
Most often the crack is evidential, and there the method is the one he calls AImagine: the work begins from a photograph — his own, or found — something that was actually there, before a lens, and generative tools extend it beyond its own borders. Sometimes no document exists, and the crack is constructed within the image itself. Intention before technique: AI is the tool, the mind is the author.
He explores the cracks in reality: what an ordered world excludes, forgets, or deliberately hides.
A Dodho contributor since 2020, his work has appeared in ARTDOC Magazine and ARTELLS Magazine, where one of his images was selected as the cover (Vol. 4040). He lives and works between Bilbao and Italy.
Awards
- Winner — Fotonostrum AI Visual Awards 2024, Barcelona
- MUSE Awards 2023 — Gold & Silver
- EPA 2023 · VIEPA 2021
- IGPOTY 2018 / 2019 / 2022 — Commended & Highly Commended
- Pollux Awards 2019 — Honorable Mention (series Colored Phantasmagory)
- Premio Arte Novara 2017 — Digital Art (Pesce Volante)
Collections
- Médecins Sans Frontières, Madrid
- Centro de Fotografía Isla de Tenerife
- Tecnalia Research and Innovation Foundation, Bilbao
Publications
- Memoria Immaginata - book
- Emotionage (Micrografías y Emociones) — published by Libros.com, born from a community project on Facebook Giuseppe founded and led, funded through crowdfunding
- Self-published books: Fotopoesie · Anni di Piombo · Llamada del Atlas
- ARTDOC Magazine · ARTELLS Magazine (cover, Vol. 4040)
- ICM Photo Mag
- Dodho Magazine — Contributor since 2020, 20+ essays
giusatriani@yahoo.com