Francesco Del Conte
Francesco Del Conte (1988, Milan) is a visual artist, photographer, and researcher living and working in Brussels. His artistic practice investigates photography as both a technical process and a cultural construct. Through an experimental and research-based approach, he explores the historical, conceptual, and material conditions that shape the production of images. Influenced by the use of large-format cameras and by Vilém Flusser’s notion of the Black Box, he seeks to reveal the mechanisms that often remain hidden behind photographic representation.
His work focuses on technology’s impact on the way images are created, perceived, and interpreted. By exploring both analogue and digital processes, he questions the widespread assumption that photography is an unbiased apparatus, examining the tensions between documentation and interpretation, objectivity and subjectivity, natural and artificial.
Within his practice, the archive serves both as a source of visual material and as a framework for reflecting on how images preserve, transmit, and reshape knowledge across time. Combining light-sensitive processes spanning over two centuries, his projects engage with various fields, such as astronomy, architecture, industrial design, and colour science. By pushing photography beyond its conventional boundaries, he aims to create works that reflect on technological mediation, perception, and materiality, eventually opening spaces for contemplation.
Del Conte’s work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at institutions including the Foto-Galerie Wien, Vienna; CCA Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu; Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp; Foto-Forum, Bolzano; Basilica di San Celso, Milan; Fondazione 107, Turin; Museo della Città, Rimini; and Museo della Montagna, Turin.