Blow-Up

BLOW-UP is an exhibition that explores the ways in which film inspires and shapes reality. The project traces the trajectory from Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 film Blow-Up to today’s increasingly filmic experience of everyday life. Nearly sixty years later, the world appears to mirror cinema in reverse, as reality itself begins to feel constructed, edited, and framed.

Organised across three chapters, the exhibition examines artefacts from the 1960s in dialogue with contemporary counterparts, generating a series of visual and conceptual juxtapositions. Throughout, film and photography reflect on their own power to create, distort, or reveal truth. As the lens is inverted and the frame transcended, the viewer encounters an intensified confrontation between subject and object—between what is seen and how seeing shapes meaning.