I came back in the same place at different times and for different reasons. 

I then started to attend them more closely. With the passage of time I saw them change while being abandoned. Familiar objects were placed in different places, or were no longer there. 

at a certain point my frequent visits were proportional to perceived changes. at that time I had the need to record before losing his memory.

Stillife

At the beginning the human being, as an integral part of the wild nature, found himself immersed in a hostile environment. 

He had to fight daily for his survival and it was an unequal struggle. But very soon he got the upper hand of the nature, establishing a balanced relationship with the natural environment, and then he learnt how to dominate it.

The project would like to depict not only the domain of the human being over the natural environment but also when this relationship has been reversed and the nature has slowly regained spaces once it used to possess.



natureVSman

The individual has always proved a spontaneous tendency to congregate.
The post-modern society, however, sees the emergence of a man incapable of find stable identification and disorientation is the typical man's existential condition.

The absence of a field of reference and fragmentation of reality impose everyone to wander through different social layers continuously renovating their existence.

The subjectivity in constant tension between the social masks wearing from time to time and the ability to deny them.
The individual turns into a man constantly looking of a new identity which does not exist.

This project has the aim to transpose onto photographic paper relations existing between various individuals by overlapping of their portraits by first cataloged and divided according to the criteria of belonging in order to create a sort of identity does not exist, a nonidentity.

NonIdentity

The lines intersect. Geometries of light mark spaces across the border between two-dimension and depth. As through a mirror that breaks the perspective is divided into hundreds of fragments, each describing a portion of reality, which is sometimes repeated, overlapping, modified or distorted. Vision of the real or projection of the mind? 

Through a clever overlay of images that represent the same place, real, seen from different perspectives, the artist recreates surprisingly imaginary environments. The study is the overall view of the same place, the representation of different portions of the same area that make up a new vision of the whole. 

The new representation is proposed, therefore, as a visual representation of a place of the mind: the image is detached from the daily to become the realization of a memory, the visual extension of a tactile experience that is composed not only from figure placed in space, but also of emotions and feelings reworked afterwards. 

No wonder if the proportions are offsetting and the figures become almost unrecognizable: not everything is saved, not everything is clear and audible. The mind is focused only on certain details, catalysts of meaning that emerge from the shadows while maintaining the original appearance but sometimes changing it's intrinsic value. 

With an analytical representation of the real process of memory formation, the awareness of an experience, the mental image that combines space and time, feeling become so accessible to the eyes. It appears the fourth dimension.


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