Us
by Stefano Ferrando
portfolio special mention call 'Urbanautica Institute Awards 2023', 2023
Category: Anthropology and Territories
If the landscape embodies a collective identity, then it serves as the political, physical, and perceptual horizon onto which the community and its interaction with the environment are projected. The modern landscape exposes, across various dimensions, traces of conflict—sometimes overt, other times latent—between humans and nature. Their relationship often materializes as an unresolved connection, characterized by tension. Within this framework, a series of photographs, born out of the exploration of border zones between urban and rural areas surrounding the Metropolitan City of Cagliari in southern Sardinia, presents landscape scenarios where nature reveals its integrity, and the human element emerges subtly. These spaces, as Francesco Careri contends, belong to a reality that can be likened to a "perforated" or "moth-eaten" reality, metaphorically reflecting human relationships.
also from Urbanautica Institute Awards 2023