Antropomorto emerges from the dichotomy between the
analog and the digital world. Before, there was the man
deus ex - machina who dealt with creative and artisanal
processes. Today, through automatisms, man and matter
have disappeared behind computer screens. The
photographs are numbers, patterns that can be replicated
as blade runners who have lost their human side. Nowadays,
the human hand is increasingly absent, and its algorithms'
marks replace it. Antropomorto does not want to denounce
the process but to report that the analog medium
contradicts the current space-time. Therefore digital
transition is necessary to make the instrument suitable for
its time. In the ultra-fast era, analog techniques become the
link with our past; they merge it with the present, allowing
it to stay alive.
Likewise, the great challenge of the coming years is to keep
the biosphere alive by establishing new temporal and spatial
perspectives. Antropomorto is the author's introspective
journey through the Bolognese countryside. The human
presence has silently shaped the landscape, transforming
the environment into an entirely man-made space.
Moreover, this process has forged our minds making us
unable to adopt new perspectives and new solutions.
Antropomorto sheds light on peculiar events and figures to
guide the observer on this journey. Through analog
photography, this project reflects on the complexity of the
evolution of human society: the individual searches are
intertwined, the personal moments overlap, generating
images that belong to a dimension far from chronological
realism. The series consists of images that suggest feelings,
including loss and peace, hidden in the face of the anguish
of the unknown. Here objects, landscapes, artistic citations
are mixed, enhancing the sense of the image in communion.
The photos are layered through overlapping frames that
refer to the primitive part of the human condition, between
chaos and order, madness and archetype, life and death.