North East
by Alessandro Tegon

portfolio special mention call 'WHAT'S THE URGENCY?', 2021

Northeast Italy, the territory in which I live. Historically rural, in the last 70 years it has been the subject of a process of industrialization and economic development such as to profoundly transform not only the living conditions but also socio-cultural aspects and the conception of space and the relationship between environment and human intervention. The apogee of this process has been over for many years, in fact today society and the economy are increasingly defined as post-industrial, highly outsourced or specialized. All the material and immaterial upheavals that have occurred over time have deeply penetrated the collective imagination, changing its values and expectations and freeing the field for many years to merely utilitarian forces. The cultural legacy of these years of well-being, achieved with the utmost haste and then more or less preserved, is a mirror image of the directly tangible signs spread and stratified throughout the territory. A mixture of elements of various kinds, often dissonant, chaotically mixed as if they were industrial waste. It is not just about non-places, widespread construction and soil consumption or pollution. Alongside the territorial waste, there has also been an anthropological compromise such as to justify the sacrifice of a heritage preserved for centuries as necessary and functional to the so-called progress. What really remains as a legacy of what has been? Although much is still steeped in ancient beauty, an imbalance between natural space and artificial space is certainly looming. A general and coherent vision of human intervention was unjustifiably lacking. Between the natural element and the artificial element a deep split has been generated, interstices have opened in which the two categories merge and from which restlessness, a sense of decadence and disorder arise. These images are intended to be a daily travel diary, an account of the various breaking points of a balance that I do not think I have ever really known due to age. A collection of visual suggestions aimed at creating a personal iconographic vocabulary. They tell how the awareness of the need to understand the correlation between human activity and territory in a new, more uncompromising and radical way.


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