Phenomena
Sara Palmieri
DITO Publishing
English
Softcover
Edition of 150
134 pages
260 x 195 mm
2022
ISBN 9791280304124
Phenomena contracts time by redefining the space occupied by humanity in relation to nature, its scenarios of representation, imagination and control. She breaks the boundaries of what is perceived as real, allowing an often invisible dimension to emerge. Through a profound understanding of natural phenomena in relation to social ones, the photographer builds an allegory of creation that questions the hierarchies, the balance of power, the manipulation and the resources exchanged between nature and man.
The series presented brings together three different exhibition projects by the artist, placing them together in a new editorial form under the name of Phenomena: natural and artificial phenomena that hinder us and that we can see, we must see, to preserve our relationship with the planet. To guide us along the way, a small white bird – the first photograph in the book – which, starting from the dark and returning to the dark of the final pages, tells us of a world that has become corrupted, but which is not finished yet.
The edition is completed by the writer and poet Beatrice La Tella, who in dialogue with the images has created a text of great evocative power, a sort of choir that resonates together with the journey of the little guide: “man has inhabited everything. / With his hands he conquered all that carelessly ran towards him.”
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About the Artist
Sara Palmieri is a visual artist, curator and teacher who lives and works in Rome. After an MA and background in architecture, she focused her interest on photography as the main tool to investigate the perception of time and memory through their resonance on the space we inhabit, and as a starting point to question the forms of reality, to show the fragility of its certainties. With the introduction of sculpture, performance and installation both in the creative process and in the exhibition of the final work, she invites the viewer to enter a new possible scenario, to overturn the perspective from which we observe things and to abandon the usual codes of reference.
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About the Publisher
DITO Publishing is a Rome-based independent publishing house for contemporary photography and visual arts founded in 2020 by Martha Micali and Klim Kutsevskyy.
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