In her series "Latenza", Vittoria Gerardi explores the concept of the latent image within each print before it is revealed and the links between light and temporality. She uses plant elements as negatives, employs an experimental process of partial revelation of the images and does not fix her prints. The works thus become photosensitive and the images change form and colour under the effect of light. Photography becomes "photosynthesis" of the plant world. These prints are kept in wooden boxes equipped with doors that allow light to enter, and thus to make the print evolve. The doors set an enamelled copper plate. On its outer-visible face, the enamel is a monochrome glass (10 enamels for the 10 colours of the visible spectrum: white, yellow, orange, red, grey, green, blue, indigo, violet and black). On the inside, the enamel presents a dendritic form resulting from a reaction between the copper and the glass.