On 30 December 2019, between half past eleven and half past three, on the island of Ventotene, Aniello Barone photographed a geological wall, reading in it the history of the earth and its layers of different ages; on that wall he made out a shadow, a silhouette, imagining he saw a human profile in continual becoming that questioned him. Bringing the human shadow into the light, it becomes nature, and it could not be otherwise.

“The gaze rests for a brief fraction of time on a pre-human, or perhaps post-human, world.”