The only records of our ancestors are in their fossils-VI Photograph

“The search for the primitive is, then, as old as civilization. It is the search for the utopia of the past, projected into the future, with civilization being the middle term.” Diamond S., 1974, In Search of the Primitive: A Critique of Civilization. Exploiting the correspondences between science and art, the project explores the struggling between primitivism and civilization, showing the fragile impression of a species divided between the logical and the mystical, between living as erect rational individuals and being destined to born and die according to the unknowable and inexplicable flow of primordial forces. The drive toward advancement on one side, and the contingency of our nature on the other, represent an existential dichotomy and an innate dilemma that seems cannot find plausible responses neither in the present or in the past of the mankind, nor in the future and in its evolution. The project is conceived like collection of records of humanity, as an anachronistic and paradoxical series of mementos, which does not respond anymore to any form of analytical law and which is reluctant to rational speculations and resistant to predictability. Embracing a series of combined practices, from collage to physical procedures and interventions on the photographic surface, the whole work has to be consider like the transfer of a physical experiment into the picture context, aiming for the rediscover of the flaw that characterized the human species and revealing the primitive and visceral nature we all belong to. The dialogue between past and future remnants annihilates the linearity on which the pillars of civilization seat and through the demolition of what is visible, demonstrable, and objectively quantifiable, traces of the primal and raw condition of human race could be still recovered. Suggesting implications for the past, the present and the future of a mankind involved in the accomplishment of the eternal endurance, the series eludes to the petrified, preserved, and permanent impression of the fossils as a challenge to human temporal registers.

Photography:Giclée on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:15.7 W x 20.5 H x 0.1 D in

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