Land Cycle #05
Land Cycles is a photographic series of landscapes built up in the studio. Preparing sets of paper painted with acrylics I recreated spaces mysterious and unexplored.
In the myth of Cain and Abel, the two brothers symbolically represent two different ways of living : one in time and the other in space (1). We live the metaphorical condition of Cain and his fratricide. We live in an age where time cancels out space. Indeed, Abel represents the principle of the constant expansion of space – where nothing is permanent, where there is no opportunity for human artifice and no possibility of a systematic industrial exploitation of its resources. With the symbolic murder of Abel, men started attributing preeminence to time, thereby developing a culture in which life was organized and restricted to infinite fragments, seasons and cycles, while space was given limited importance and considered merely as a resource.
In line with these ideas, I decided to produce images of spaces composed of lands, skies and seas: these are the basic elements that we lack today and for this reason they have become the most expressive. Looking at these works, their interpretation revolves around the ambiguity that lies between the perception of a real landscape and that of a vision. Exploring photography’s capacity to distort what it reproduces, Land Cycles falls somewhere between reality and fiction, thus throwing one’s glance towards the golden age.
In the myth of Cain and Abel, the two brothers symbolically represent two different ways of living : one in time and the other in space (1). We live the metaphorical condition of Cain and his fratricide. We live in an age where time cancels out space. Indeed, Abel represents the principle of the constant expansion of space – where nothing is permanent, where there is no opportunity for human artifice and no possibility of a systematic industrial exploitation of its resources. With the symbolic murder of Abel, men started attributing preeminence to time, thereby developing a culture in which life was organized and restricted to infinite fragments, seasons and cycles, while space was given limited importance and considered merely as a resource.
In line with these ideas, I decided to produce images of spaces composed of lands, skies and seas: these are the basic elements that we lack today and for this reason they have become the most expressive. Looking at these works, their interpretation revolves around the ambiguity that lies between the perception of a real landscape and that of a vision. Exploring photography’s capacity to distort what it reproduces, Land Cycles falls somewhere between reality and fiction, thus throwing one’s glance towards the golden age.
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