The series 20 Minutes is about waiting, a personal testimony of suspension. The images are of a non-defined space and time, an ‘in between lands’. This project became the documentation of these lands, a collection of waitings in places of passage. The pills (collected every morning) are a measurement of time. They do not relate to a medical discourse, but question the repetition and the suspension of time.
I kept collecting my pills for a few years, starting without any particular purpose. Then I made 20 Minutes, which I see as being a container of time. The project collects the time waited over a couple of months, describing this period amongst the images of pills and the places I had to pass through such as passage ways, airports, train stations, waiting rooms and the hospital. They are depictions of different dimensions of time and space, a subject in which I have always been inspired with my photography.
Claudia Bigongiari is an Italian photographer who focuses on silent spaces and suspended moments. She is driven to take pictures by a personal need to make her visions and memories come to life. Static objects, non defined conditions of space and time and in-between moments fascinate her. She recently attended the Master's in Photography at the University of Brighton, and graduated from the Fine Arts Academy of Florence in Exhibition Design. She now lives in Italy.