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Suspended

Sicily: a near-present just passed.

What do I photograph and why? What attracts me most? For sure I’m engaged in “thought experiments” producing landscapes. I try to extrapolate through the lens what is in my brain and the results are realizations of my mental form “out there”. I feel the need to link inner and outer reality, mind and matter, by the means of a mindscape. For sure this inner motion can be fulfilled thanks to the places I know most, where I was born, shooting over the last years, my Suspended project. Suspended is, as a result, still a documentary project, even I feel it as the result of real personal need. A photographic sequence exploring what is far from Mediterranean stereotypes and "tòpoi". No winking postcards testifying a collective image of Lands full of art and nature. No iconic visions of black dressed mamas, godfathers and religious fests. Visual sketches, on my Landscapes, where “The City is as old as Time and continuous with it”(1), where every place has been (or is going to be) colonized by man made artefacts. Suspended, between past and future, sky and earth, as suspended are buildings and structures that seam to grow up spontaneously from a common soil. In turning my mindscapes into reality, in choosing my subjects, I’ve created, without a deliberate decision, a time jumping effect, between unfinished and ruins, incomplete buildings and to-be projects with a various outcomes: spaces re-conquered, wounds in the present, delirious projections into the future.
(1) In The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1978.

In Suspended there is a splendid and tragic feeling of emptiness, if those two could be mentioned in the same breath, and surreal as well. I like the scale shifts you are seeing with the cars, people, the houses, and the sun-blasted and burnt color of the landscapes and buildings. It shows me a kind of painful beauty in desolation, taking us beyond any hope of recovery. This is good work. Congratulations for staying so true — Joel Meyerowitz, April 2nd 2019

Year: 2006-2019 | Archival Pigment Prints | Optionally mounted on Dibond or Diasec | More Information | Artist Statement

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Agnone Bagni, 2011
Agnone Bagni, 2011
Teatro di Consagra, Gibellina, 2011
Teatro di Consagra, Gibellina, 2011
Borgo Livio Bassi, 2017
Borgo Livio Bassi, 2017
Poggioreale vecchio, 2008
Poggioreale vecchio, 2008
Donnafugata, 2010
Donnafugata, 2010
Caravan, 2019
Caravan, 2019
Borgo Lupo, 2009
Borgo Lupo, 2009
Adrano, 2008
Adrano, 2008
Desusino, 2012
Desusino, 2012
Altarino, 2019
Altarino, 2019
Portopalo, 2011
Portopalo, 2011
Isola di Portopalo, 2016
Isola di Portopalo, 2016
Vendicari, 2007
Vendicari, 2007
Niscemi, 2010
Niscemi, 2010
Caccamo, 2015
Caccamo, 2015
La Croce, 2012
La Croce, 2012
Siculiana, 2009
Siculiana, 2009
Linosa 3, 2009
Linosa 3, 2009
Marina, 2010
Marina, 2010
Finale, 2010
Finale, 2010
Macchinetta, Scoglitti, 2014
Macchinetta, Scoglitti, 2014
Torre Faro, 2011
Torre Faro, 2011
Focallo 2, 2019
Focallo 2, 2019
Linosa 4, 2009
Linosa 4, 2009
Linosa, 2009
Linosa, 2009
Borgo Malfitano II, 2017
Borgo Malfitano II, 2017
Mineo, 2015
Mineo, 2015
La Cava, 2019
La Cava, 2019
Gibellina, 2017
Gibellina, 2017
Nubia, 2008
Nubia, 2008
Libertinia, 2011
Libertinia, 2011
Borgo Giuliano, 2014
Borgo Giuliano, 2014
gualtieri sicaminò, 2017
gualtieri sicaminò, 2017
Portopalo, 2014
Portopalo, 2014
Marina di Acate, 2014
Marina di Acate, 2014
Gela, 2010
Gela, 2010
Raddusa, 2019
Raddusa, 2019
Roccapalumba, 2015
Roccapalumba, 2015
Macconi, 2014
Macconi, 2014
San Lorenzo, 2017
San Lorenzo, 2017
Letojanni, 2015
Letojanni, 2015
strada statale 385, 2019
strada statale 385, 2019
Savoca, 2010
Savoca, 2010
Gallodoro, 2008
Gallodoro, 2008
Container, 2019
Container, 2019
Crash, Gela, 2014
Crash, Gela, 2014
Caltagirone, 2019
Caltagirone, 2019
Futuropoli (Gela), 2010
Futuropoli (Gela), 2010
agnone bagni, baia del riccio 2019
agnone bagni, baia del riccio 2019
Tre Colonne, 2016
Tre Colonne, 2016
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