If photography does not need words to express itself, it is true that words can still construct a plot that, without any pretence of explaining the images, accompanies them in a sort of parallel track. At first glance, Alice Arcando’s photographs seem to overshadow the human presence, but instead they emphasise it in a game of subtraction. Elisabetta Fava’s poems, on the other hand, want to suggest a key to interpretation, starting from details that might seem secondary but which can speak and suggest emotions.
(From the 17th PhotoFestival catalogue, 2022.)
This exhibition was born out of the need to represent the path that the Earth has taken: the observer,
the photographer, stands still behind his lens and watches the change pass around him, like a sundial that is heated in different points and angles from the constant rotary movement of the sun around
the earth. It arises from the need to communicate that the world as it appears to us is not forever: change is underway, and photography is a means of demonstrating it.
