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In Sorgente, Jim C. Nedd restores emotional and geological centrality to the territory of Framura, making the landscape not just a backdrop but an active, sensitive protagonist. At the heart of his exploration, the river emerges as a vital axis, a backbone flowing through the Ligurian village with discreet yet steady force. It is not just water in motion: it is living matter, a vessel of memory, a source of submerged narratives.
The chosen site—an ancient mill that once served as shelter, outpost, and memory space—becomes a place charged with symbolic meaning, transformed into the stage for a secular liturgy of care, resistance, and layered affections. In this nearly forgotten fragment of Framura, Nedd reconfigures photography as a ritual act, a gesture that gives shape to the invisible and lends an ear to silence.
Framura, with its vertical geography, is a living body: both mother and threat, nourishment and constraint. Within this scenario, Sorgente does not merely document—it transforms the gaze into experience, inviting viewers into an embodied perception of places, understood as living architectures of memory and resistance.
Jim C. Nedd’s visual universe is crossed by subtle tensions between melancholy and ecstasy, shaped by a biography in constant transit between the Caribbean coast of Colombia and Italy. Two worlds, two perceptual grammars converge in porous images, suspended between document and vision. His hybrid practice moves fluidly between genres and languages—from macro naturalism to fashion photography, from documentary portraiture to highly symbolic mise-en-scène—always beginning with a personal experience that expands into the collective. His images act as listening devices, spaces of convergence for oral histories, diasporic memories, and popular imaginaries, in which urgent questions surface: gentrification, the friction between body and space, and the identity tensions of life in transit. Sorgente is a clear synthesis of all this: a work that pulses, breathes, and gives voice to what flows beneath the surface.

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Artwork:

01. Jim C. Nedd, Sorgente, 2025, lightbox, 225 x 150 cm
Via della Stazione, Framura (SP)
Stairway adjacent to the train station.

Jim C. Nedd’s practice (Colombia/Italy, 1991) weaves together music, photography, and storytelling. Much of his photographic work captures collective celebrations in the Caribbean, with images that blur the line between fiction and reality. Landscapes and figures drawn from personal memory merge with themes of identity and popular culture. Oral archives play a central role in his process, enabling him to create images rooted in stories heard or lived through collective memory.
He has exhibited at numerous international institutions, including Museion, Bolzano (IT, 2024); MACRO, Rome (IT, 2022); MAMBO, Bologna (IT, 2022); Cinemateca Digital, Bogotá (CO, 2022); Athens Biennale (GR, 2021); Liverpool Biennial (UK, 2021); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (DE, 2021); Triennale Milano (IT, 2020); and Autoitalia, London (UK, 2020). His work has also been shown in galleries such as Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels (BE, 2024); Gregor Staiger, Milan and Zurich (2023); Sandy Brown, Berlin (DE, 2021, 2023); and Mishkin Gallery, New York (USA, 2020).
His images have been featured in publications such as Aperture, Flash Art, Vogue Italia, Kaleidoscope, GQ, Esquire, and Revue, and he has collaborated with fashion brands including Armani, Bottega Veneta, Gucci, and Prada. From 2015 to 2020, he was part of the editorial team of Toilet Paper, founded by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari. Since 2019, he has worked with UNICEF, producing photographic reportages in Milan, Sicily, Beirut, and along the Syrian border. In 2023, he co-founded Black History Month Milano.