Davide Pepe is an artist and director from Puglia, Italy. An Information Science graduate, he has a fascination with the idea of capturing the spacetime continuum visually, and he dedicated nearly ten years to perfecting a C# software that would allow him to condense minutes, hours or days of shooting into the same image. In each frame of his series “Se potessi vedere con gli occhi di Dio” (If You Could See With God’s Eyes), the entire shooting interval—ranging from 24 to over 48 hours—is displayed at the same time, the first line on the left standing for the moment the camera starts filming, the last one on the right, the moment it is switched off. We spoke to him about his unique process, and his hope that others can find in his works the people or places they can no longer see.
