Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting is pleased to announce its debut at Paris Photo 2026, participating in the Digital section curated by Marco De Mutiis. The gallery presents a two-person exhibition featuring two of its represented artists: the French duo Mazaccio & Drowilal and Silvio Wolf.

Both explore the photographic readymade and question the enduring ambiguity and complexity of photographic meaning. Marking the bicentenary of photography, the presentation brings together two distinct yet complementary artistic approaches. Mazaccio & Drowilal, leading figures in contemporary post-photography, appropriate and recontextualise images from the digital iconosphere. Through bold juxtapositions, their work challenges our ability to interpret and use photography as a means of communication in the age of social media. Silvio Wolf, by contrast, investigates the origins of photographic language and its fundamental elements, deconstructing the image at a semantic level.

For Mazaccio & Drowilal, photography is an act of conceptual appropriation, drawing on existing visual sources such as advertising, paparazzi imagery and social media photographs. These images are continuously recirculated and reconfigured through an economy of expressive means, an approach also reflected in the duo’s logo. By cutting, combining and juxtaposing images in analogue and digital collages, the artists transform their original meanings. In the series Iconology, presented for the first time at Paris Photo, unexpected combinations of disparate images create intriguing shifts in meaning and invite new interpretations. For Silvio Wolf, also making his debut at Paris Photo, the exploration of photography’s ambiguous nature begins with its most fundamental elements: film and light. Fragments of burnt photographic film, discovered by chance and subsequently digitised and enlarged, undergo a profound transformation. Freed from their original context, they become evocative landscapes that transcend the conventional boundaries of photography and resonate with the history of abstract painting. This process of transformation radically challenges the language of photographic signs and opens up new possibilities for interpreting the image.