EXHIBITION - ENZO RAGAZZINI

WAITING FOR GODOT

A moment of arrest defines this photographs. Seven individuals sit beneath a glossy billboard advertising Vogue eyewear, each absorbed in their private ritual of waiting. Above them, models gaze outward with poised detachment. Below, one man returns our gaze, hand resting on his crotch, staring directly at the camera. He sits just beneath a model whose expression mirrors his own, forming a quiet and unsettling dyad. A young man beside him, clad in a Michael Jackson sweatshirt, becomes the hinge between these two realms.

Ragazzini captures a fragile balance between reality and illusion, orchestrating a tableau where presence and projection collapse into a single pictorial surface. The glamour of fashion and the weariness of routine coexist in tension, neither fully dominant.

By extracting linear detail and emphasizing tonal contrast, the artist gives the composition a tactile strength that recalls Expressionist woodcuts. At the same time, the blunt frontal framing and emotional restraint of the scene align with the legacy of German New Objectivity artists, an unflinching aesthetic that resists sentiment and heightens psychological friction. In this charged stillness, Ragazzini elevates the ordinary into something enduring: a portrait of anonymity, desire, and the strange intimacy of public space.

In Waiting for Godot, Enzo Ragazzini reveals the quiet dramas of urban life, where public spaces become stages of fatigue, isolation, and longing. Turning his lens on people waiting in Rome, he captures the collision between real bodies and glossy fantasies; moments where individuals remain disconnected beneath advertisements promising beauty, success, and a life just out of reach.