VERI, ORANGINA & APEROL SPRITZ

SOFÍA PARÍS AND ANDREU DE PEDRO

This book, designed by a duo of Spanish artists Sofía París et Andreu de Pedro. It embodies the temporal image of a Mediterranean summer. Produced over the course of a summer journey, the works gathered here seek to represent both the ties that bind us to one another and our relationship with the Mediterranean Sea.

Veri, Orangina & Aperol Spritz is the photographic and aesthetic account of an endless summer around the Mediterranean Sea, its people, its land and its history.

Influenced by New Wave cinema and the work of Claude Nori, the work of Sofía París and Andreu de Pedro embodies a sensitive world of warm tones and sensual details. Through different styles of imagery – still life, landscapes, portraits, details, fashion… the photographs reveal an intimate plastic universe that touches on the universal.

It’s a book about summer, and you’re the summer girl, so the arrival of this season makes your eyes and skin shine as brightly as the colorful pages of this book. In every photo, whether it’s a portrait, a landscape or a still life, there’s you, your way of seeing the world and your way of creating.

 

LETTER FROM ANDREU DE PEDRO TO SOFÍA PARIS
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Through the story of a voyage around the Meditarranean Sea, this book tells a love story that touches on the universal. The images gathered here embody the love between a man and a woman, but also, and above all, the love of men for this ‘sea in the middle of the earth’, Veri, Orangina & Aperol Spritz its waters, its culture, its history. Inspired by the heroes of antiquity and the Homeric texts, the artist duo propose a visual, sensitive and intimate exploration of a geographical space that never ceases to fascinate us.

Some time ago, I learned to communicate with words and images, but I didn’t know which way to go. That same summer, I met Pedro. Without realizing it, we spent many hours together creating fiction.

 

LETTER FROM SOFÍA PARIS TO ANDREU DE PEDRO 

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Produced on film, this original work offers a sensual plunge into the world of the Mare Nostrum. Imbued with a Nouvelle Vague aesthetic, as well as the work of Claude Nori, this book is as much an exploration of the plastic — close-ups, fragmented images, landscapes, still lifes — as it is a philosophical one: what is the nature of the bond that unites us to one another? What links us to the Mediterranean Sea? The book is set in time, that of a summer, while at the same time breaking away from it. It carries the eternal voices of the men and gods who have lived in this land for thousands of years.

ABOUT SOFÍA PARÍS ET ANDREU DE PEDRO 

Sofía París and Andreu de Pedro were born in Zaragoza, Spain, in the 1990s.

Their work is inspired by the films of the French New Wave, the work of photographers such as Claude Nori and the vibrant image of the Mare Nostrum. Their way of working is organic, in search of results that seem almost improvised, with the frequent use of telephoto lenses to approach the intimate details that make up an image of summer like the tesserae of a mosaic. Self-portraits of couples, arid landscapes or still lifes combining fruit and fashion are a way of showing both intimacy and sensuality.

With a background in audiovisual and fashion photography, supplemented by specialist courses, they have been working and collaborating together on artistic projects for several years.

In 2022, they made the short film ‘Un été dans le désert’. In July 2023, they travelled to Arles with the intention of publicising their project. They set up a stand as an ephemeral gallery where they exhibited prints, postcards and fanzines of their photographs.

The idea of a photo book project on the Mediterranean summer began to emerge. They travelled the coasts of Spain, France and Italy in search of the ‘timeless image’ of a Mediterranean summer.

‘Veri, Orangina & Aperol Spritz’ seeks to depict their intimate way of connecting with each other and their relationship with the Mediterranean.

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