Photographic Project, Cambridge ArtSpace, Cambridge UK
Ten images and texts taken and written as one, personal reminders of places where I worked in and places where I considered making projects without having (ye)t the chance to realize them.
I invited the viewers to experience my vision of those places by sitting in front of each image and spending an intimate time with it.
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Gibellina, Sicily 2004
“After the village collapsed in on itself, / concrete was used to impose its eternal, silent presence in the valley forever. / I walked endlessly through cuts and lines, / feeling the sun burning the pavement and my feet, steadily./ Walking through death / while plants and threes fight back / breaking mould and space against geometry and oblivion .”
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Thames, London 2007
“I thought how beautiful it could have been / for once / to stop fighting back the stream / to be taken, instead, and float / with no effort or judgement”
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Campidoglio, Roma 2006
“I woke up in the middle of the night with this bouncing image in my head / I was rolling down the Campidoglio staircase slowly / perceiving every centimetre of stone and history with my body. / Letting myself go, eyes closed, hand open”
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Forte Stella, Toscana 2004
“Viewers were invitated to look for me, hidden everyday in different corners, cravices, gaps /playing with the idea of ghosts that this place never had/ no battle held no people killed/ the warmth of the stone, the sky all around me”
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credits:
Amy Botfield, Marco Chiandetti, Valerio Berdini, Giovanna Cirianni, Francesca Bregoli