Tictac water
by Jacopo Bellapianta
portfolio special mention call 'Urbanautica Institute Awards 2024', 2024
Category: Representations of Space, Architecture, and Conflicts
TICTAC WATER is a photographic project born from the need to investigate the passive aspects of the usual landscape. The final artistic work succeeds in questioning cold, sometimes titanic structures, and succeeds in a profoundly pictorial way, setting itself the goal of accompanying the interlocutor towards a new perceptive and visual revolution.
The dam becomes a line between a real world and a suspended one.
The great cementing power is attenuated by the diaphanous and sometimes fading tones and with wisdom manages to enchant while veiling the echo of a probable destructive force.
Undisturbed, the photographs of Tictac water are able to faithfully anagram the sense of suspension that derives from these silent worlds.
The only voice is that of energy, the positional one, the one that hydroelectric dams can create only by moving large quantities of water and that undisturbed they transform into electricity.
In the end, the resulting miracle is only the seed of a new energy source that gives us hope but is certainly not presented to us without interludes that are pungent for the eye and the spirit.
also from Urbanautica Institute Awards 2024