The MoMA exhibition „Mirrors and Windows. American Photography since 1960“ from 1978 curated by John Szarkowkski was used as a base to develop my idea. The exhibition was organised around Sarkowkski’s thesis that personal visions take one of two forms. In metaphorical terms, the photograph is seen either as a mirror - a romantic expression of the photographer’s sensibility as it projects itself on the things and and sights of this world; or as a window - through which the exterior world is explored in all its presence and reality.
„…is it a mirror, reflecting a portrait of the artist who made it, or a window, through which one might better know the world?“ John Sarkowski in „Mirrors and Windows“.
The projects works on two different layers - to look outside and to look inside myself. A method of exploration vs. self-expression. Photography for me is also a form of separation from the world - I’m here, they’re there - the feeling of disconnection. I tried to embrace the issue of distance and closeness, the simultaneous quality of connection and separation.
The base layer of this sequence is the city I live in - the daily things I see, that keep me going, the exploring, the wandering, the calming and the so often not seen. I tried to display my view of this fragile, eroded, patinated and drowning city - the rear view of the Serenissima. The second level breaks the routine, destroys the harmony. It shows my inside - vulnerable, restless and desperate - but the heart keeps on beating.
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Val Camonica 2019
The pictures were taken at the UNESCO world cultural heritage site of the Rock Drawings in Valcamonica. It has one of the world‘s greatest collections of prehistoric petroglyphs – more than 140,000 symbols and figures carved in the rock over a period of 8,000 years and depicting themes connected with agriculture, navigation, war and magic. The engravings have been invisible for a long time, they were hidden by vegetation like lichens.
The project‘s focus is on these lichens, that are half fungi and half algae. They are very complex forms of life and can live over thousand years. They are one of the oldest plants we know and the rocks with the prehistoric engravings are covered with them.
supervised by Stefano Graziani
Umbria 2019
The work focuses on observing the transformation of the landscape when the earth proves to be a living body.
I analyzed the two areas - the terrestrial, geological, tectonic, made of folds, plates and stones and the human response, made of immobility, militarization, surveillance, restoration, reconstruction and abandonment.
supervised by Amedeo Martegani
Villa Manin 2019
It is still difficult for me to find words for what has happened, especially when the only message was „I’m sorry“ written on a post-it.
I’m not good with words, I never was and for this experience there are no words that could explain what I’ve been through. I just hope that no one gets there… But sometimes you have to go back just to know just where you have been. I took the opportunity to work with all these left over emotions.
suprvised José Pedro Cortes
Milano 2019
The heart of the work represents a journey by foot through the parks of Milano. I tried to read the landscape and understand its necessity for the inhabitans.
supervised Filippo Romano
Venezia 2016
In a forest - portraits of trees like they were persons.
supervised by Andrea Pertoldeo
Trevi, Umbria 2019
Pictures taken during my residency at Villa Fabbri in Trevi, Umbria.
Umbria 2019
titel picture for the new master in photography IUAV Venezia website
Coverphoto for the swiss architecture magazine TEC21 from Giovanni Bellini’s “Angel of the Annunciation and Virgin Annunciate”.
Palm Springs 2016
