Giulia Parlato, Atlas Undarum

Atlas Undarum

Giulia Parlato

Publisher
Witty Books
Year
2026
ISBN
9791280177711
Specifications
Softcover
24 x 30 cm
48+20 pages
Edited by Stefania Rössl, Tommaso Parrillo
Design by Damiano Fraccaro / Otium Studio
Text by Fabio Matano, Stefania Rössl, Samuele Vincenti
Funded by the European Union, NextGenerationEU (PNRR project "National Biodiversity Future Center", National Research Council)

Atlas Undarum by Giulia Parlato removes the sea from its phenomenological and landscape evidence, reframing it as a knowledge device that is operationally reproducible and modelable. The attention to the experimental laboratory space, itself the subject of the photographs, does not merely represent the phenomenon, but reorganises its conditions of intelligibility through processes of scaled reconstruction. Wave motion is thus segmented, discretised, and rendered analytically accessible through experimental setups that isolate individual processual components, translating the continuity of the phenomenon into operational sequences. Photographic images escape the distinction between documentation and abstraction, operating as hybrid surfaces. Sediments, water, and miniaturised elements constitute a visual field in which experiment, model, and landscape no longer appear as separate categories, instead assuming the form of transitional states within a single material and semiotic configuration. What is revealed is not the representation of a given landscape, but rather the set of operations through which it is progressively constructed as an object of observation and knowledge. The image thus becomes the site of a continuous negotiation between physical phenomena, technical systems, and interpretative practices, making visible the mediating processes that structure the production of scientific knowledge. The landscape takes shape through a constellation of devices, measurements, and visualisation procedures that progressively articulate its conditions of legibility and interpretation.

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