Alpine gardens
by Weiner Cyrille
portfolio shortlisted call 'Urbanautica Institute Awards 2023', 2023
Category: Anthropology and Territories
This project focuses on villages and hamlets in the Vanoi Valley: Caoria, Canal San Bovo, Ronco and attempts to express a relationship to the Alpine living environment, to the Mountain and beyond, a relationship to the World.
I first observed the edges, the outskirts, the margins of these villages and hamlets which led me to discover pleasure gardens and vegetable production. They provide information on the way of living, the personality of the inhabitants, and a unique way of appropriating a territory. Nature gently weaves the link between these domestic, intimate spaces and the great Alpine territory.
Exploring the margins also confronted me with a form of familiarity with certain spaces that I photographed on the outskirts of cities (La fabrique du pré), spaces where a deep sense of freedom expresses, in resistance to standardized lifestyles.
At different scales, from very small to huge, the image and symbolism of the garden are articulated. The delicate care for the living expresses a plea for respect for the other and for the living.
also from Urbanautica Institute Awards 2023