A nice title of a recent solo exhibition well defines Mimmo Jodice's research, because the enigma of light is the characteristic that helps us understand that very special fascination that emanates from images such as the ones presented here. To understand them, we need to go back to the time when Jodice, by his own admission, having accepted that the change in which he had believed in the 1970s was not possible, made an ethical and aesthetic change that led him to show a Naples without people but not without a soul. What he is looking for thus becomes a study of what space can tell, as is clearly evident in the almost chilling image of the Albergo dei poveri where that iron bed placed across the room attracts attention with an intense evocative force. The sense of timelessness and that strange light that often emanates from the shapes playing with shadows characterises the second image so powerful in its compositional rigour. These are two works that stand, in a perfect even if not immediately obvious continuity, with his early research work when Jodice more than anything else wanted to photograph ideas.