Andrea Camiolo - Per un Paesaggio Possibile - For a Possible Landscape
What is a landscape?
If it is already difficult to answer this question, even only from a definitional point of view, it becomes even more complex to answer the question, "how is a landscape represented?" Starting from this premise, my research analyzes a modest Sicilian hilly landscape, which becomes the archetype of the ideal landscape, proposing to the viewer its possible representations.
From a drawing on paper to the satellite image, from the word "landscape" printed on a dictionary to the screenshot of the source code of a .jpg file, from a scan of a 4x5 film negative to the still-life of small stones taken from the analyzed site, each of these representations reveals a possible vision of the same landscape. The possible landscape then becomes the set of all these proposed images, and as in the final scene of Abbas Kiarostami's "Taste of cherry", the photographic medium is revealed (here through a mirror) reminding the viewer of the illusion and artificiality of each of these individual representations and the consequent impossibility of answering the initial question.
