REFERENCING UNKNOWN SOURCES
2023
Photography can be a way to reorder thoughts, to create connections, referencing something to give meaning to something else. This sequence contains pictures with very distant subjects, both in typology and whereabouts, creating a dialogue between unstable images, with different lavers of meaning, either intrinsic or attributed, but never giving an answer to what "real meaning" is.
How can I know what something really means when the only thing I can do is to look at it in a specific way, with no extra information, other than my own experience? And is "real meaning", in fact, real?
“I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as well, something nebulous, gauze-like, through which everything one sees in a dream seems, paradoxically, much clearer. A pond becomes a lake, a breeze becomes a storm, a handful of dust is a desert, a grain of sulphur in the blood is a volcanic inferno. What manner of theater is it, in which we are at once playwright, actor, stage manager, scene painter and audience?”
W. G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn