Poter restare fermo
curated by Antonella Camarda, Giangavino Pazzola
pp. 129
Allemandi, Torino 2021

Poter restare fermo
curated by Antonella Camarda, Giangavino Pazzola
pp. 129
Allemandi, Torino 2021

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I would like to be a plant, even a herb, / a vine, / better it would be an olive tree, / maybe a pomegranate. / Being able to stand still / and immobile, / in a courtyard of the Campidano, / in a vegetable garden in the Baronia, / in a vineyard in Dorgali. / Know the history of a house, / Know the moods of the seasons. / To make people laugh / even the wisest of my village.

Valeria Cherchi, Paola Ciregia and Vittorio Mortarotti, among the most significant emerging Italian photographers, started from this poem by Costantino Nivola for the project, curated by Antonella Camarda and Giangavino Pazzola, winner of the 2020 Strategy Photography call. transformation, stasis proved ineluctable, terribly necessary. Sardinia, with its laterality and its presumed separateness, has become a metaphor for a universal condition. The volume, which returns the results of the research of the three photographers, is accompanied by contributions from scholars from different disciplinary fields, who offer different interpretations for the works and for the present we are experiencing.