Since we are living in the age
of computers, the verb "TO RESET" oversees the action of deleting and restarting.
Hit the key, restart the system... problem erased.
With the passing of the time, however , Ctrl-Alt-Del from a pure technical
gesture becomes a "way of being", a resolutive paradigm of sometimes ephemeral
effects.
The photographic work of "RESET?" offers a prompt reflection on the
illusion of liberation that waste disposal provides to modern society.
I buy, I use, I consume, I dispose of, so I delete... but am I really sure?
I
gave birth to the project "RESET?" on a May evening while I was
throwing out household waste. The pleasant sensation of freedom and
lightness this trivial home task caused me, triggered off an intimate
analysis which resulted soon in associating such a gesture to freudian
primal pleasure of defecation, and in the bitter consideration that such
pleasant sensation should have stopped inside domestic walls, since the
cycle of discarge was only apparent and far from being concluded with
the driving away of the garbage truck.
The
more and more frequent natural disaster are a spectacular signal that
something isn't working, but the planet is also speaking to us also with
less-spectacular but equally-worrying signals. The earth is revealing,
through rivers and seas, the product of our incivility: waste, waste, and
more waste!
Creating
this photographic project was "fun", examining how the phenomenon of
garbage strewn in the environment is so widespread.
4 continents, 9 states, lakes, rivers, mountains, beaches and many cities are
the protagonists of "Reset?". I have collected the objects
(waste) dispersed in the environment and composes them in elegant plexiglas,
together with the image of the waste, to launch a warning. The horizon of these
images, "straightened out for convenience", becomes a metaphor for an
apparent equilibrium.
In this case the city is Venice and the object is a
radiotaxi ticket from the city of Florence thrown on the steps of a bridge: In
the background the Ponte dei Sospiri.
