Still Water

2023

Photographic prints 30 x 45 cm

I love making monuments in a low voice. Talking about tragedies, I cannot celebrate the dead ones, the exiled or the veterans. I prefer to dedicate myself to the survivors, the escaped, to those who stand anyway: no one cares about those who have experienced a tragedy and still carry traces of it, even if invisible ones. Consulting various documents regarding the collapse of the Gleno dam, I was very struck by the testimony of Mrs. Maria from Darfo who, after recalling how she and her house had escaped the overwhelming force of the water thanks to fortuitous circumstances, tells how - now grown up - on a trip to Lake Moro, she kindly but firmly refused to get on the boat. How did she feel about water now? I suppose that in her memory as a seven-year-old girl, it still retains an enormous destructive power, which probably reverberates inside her every time she looks at water, even the well-known Lago Moro, close to her house. For this reason, I went to Capo di Lago (on the Lago Moro shore) and walked along the bank obsessively repeating "Why don't you get on the boat, Maria?" and I took some photos of the water, looking for the gaze on the lake that Maria could have had. Images of dark green water, similar to oil, have emerged, almost abstract images that retain only the density and weight of the water. The weight of the water inside.