The garden elsewhere [serie Abyss]
2007
photography [lambda print, glass, wooden frame]
3 elements each 145 x 95 cm
In The Garden Elsewhere [Abysses], mud, decaying plants, and mucilaginous formations in a riverbed appear as ambiguous configurations that seem suspended between biological matter and visionary appearance.
The title alludes to a space that cannot be located, but only experienced as a threshold between the recognizable and the imagined.
The triptych seems to suggest three different moments of the day, recalling daylight and nocturnal atmospheres.
Rather than unfolding according to a narrative sequence, it develops through perceptual assonances.
Each panel presents different atmospheric qualities, where texture, saturation, and density can be associated with musical values, as timbres, cadences and tonalities.
Opposite aspects coexist in the images: immersion and emergence, flourishing and decomposing, the organic and the ethereal.
They resist immediate recognition and remain in an space of uncertainty, where the ordinary exceed itself, opening onto a subtler perceptual register.
Selected exhibitions:
– Home and Dream, 15th International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China, 2015
– Disturbances and disorders, Alessandria Biennale of Photography, Alessandria, Italy, 2011
– 54th Venice Biennale, Regional Pavilion, Palazzo del Monferrato, Alessandria, Italy, 2011
– Hydromemories, Natural Sciences Museum, Turin, Italy, 2012
