Iovino seeks to look at his surroundings with new eyes, to denaturalize what has been naturalized, and to question what we tend to automate and take for granted simply because it is familiar to us. How is it possible to move, to remove objects that are embedded in a specific environment and relocate them into a new space? In each photograph, the artist grants a life of its own to every depicted object, whether it is a ball, a mirror, the kitchen sink, a hand, his child, or his own body. In doing so, he imbues the inanimate with an anĭma. Through the art of photography, he channels a fear inherent to the human condition: the fear of confronting the unknown and the risk that comes with what is new.