TRAVELS INTO ONE NATION OF THE WORLD

Vittoria Fragapane

Publisher
Artphilein Editions
Year
2021
ISBN
9788894518627
Specifications
softcover
14.5 x 20.5 cm
56 + 1 map pages
Edition of 190 numbered copies + 10 special editions with one signed print
Italian, English
Design: Vittoria Fragapane and Giulia Brivio

«Through this series of photographs taken inside the park-museum Swiss Miniatur, the contribution that Vittoria Fragapane wants to offer is a personal story of months in which the world and its daily life, with the lockdown, began to retread from an “outside” towards an “inside”. The public and private sphere, the exteriority of social relationships and domestic interiority seem to have levelled their edges, their margins, blurring intoone another». «What is strikingly disarming in her shots, first ofall, is the lack of any distinguishability between what is big and what is small. In actual fact, most of these photographs seem to hold in a state of indistinction what our everyday experience of the world seems to have always taken for granted, i.e. our ability to identify the size of things in spatial terms. Thus they seem to invite us into a state of suspension». «Through the interplay of proportions and provocations, with a personal view on the present, the photographer presents us with a project which, like a fabric, appears to be made up of various levels, of various folds. The first level we may identify – ‘first’ not of course in terms of importance – is that in which we have the photographic reproduction of works that, in turn, reproduce buildings, squares or – more in general – the public places of any town in Switzerland. Another fold then consists of the fact that this project is presented as a journey to a place which, reproducing other places, itself evokes the notion of the journey. The physicality of travel is evoked, in turn, by the choice of the analogical image. In the eyes of the artist, the material element of this seems to evoke an atmosphere of nostalgia akin to that which we sometimes feel when browsing through photo albums of our own past travels (…).

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