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He was born in Bari and lives in a small town called Sannicandro di Bari, just a few kilometers away. He has been taking photographs for over ten years and is self-taught, having never attended photography schools. Cinema has been an integral part of his journey; since childhood, he has watched countless films, many of them science fiction like Alien, Predator, Total Recall, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and many others. He started by posting daily everyday photographs on Instagram from 2012, using an iPhone. Over time, this activity evolved into a full-time career: he has been contacted by various magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The British Journal, as well as many brands that commissioned work from him. He has published three photography books, and his work is continuously evolving.
Canicola
30.03 – 23.04.2023
There is heat in Piero Percoco’s images — a dense warmth that envelops everything, as in a universal South where the golden light of midday leaves the world exhausted and saturated. Faces marked by time, figs turned into sensual creatures, iridescent insects, and bodies burning under a relentless sun populate his photographs.
Before his lens, the concept of SuperNatural takes the shape of an overflowing, carnal physicality that sweats, cries, ages, and fills the frame, escaping any canon or judgment.
Between Weegee’s Coney Island, Stephen Shore’s suburban America, and William Eggleston’s southern liturgies, Percoco’s Puglia loses… its geographical boundaries to become a place of the soul — both “home” and land of discovery. “I look at my land with the eyes of a stranger,” the artist says. With a gaze that combines irony and empathy, Percoco portrays places and matter without rhetoric or indulgence, but with an all-embracing love. His visual language, refined through the use of his phone, captures details and fragments of a world made of lazy Sundays, imperfect bodies, hanging laundry, and ripe figs. In this overflowing and sensual universe, the poetry of small, imperfect things claims center stage, revealing a beauty that is free, playful, and lush. 
