“Little Apocalypses” we could call them.
In each of them there is the fatigue that results from the artificial societary construction put in place today and its rigidity. For most people, it seems to be insurmountable and in many cases exclusionary. Our planet is now comparable to a large fossil and every component within it a decipherable element that tells the story of our planet up to the modern age. A narrative perhaps coming to an end. Can we speak of an end? What does it really mean to live today? For the new generations it is difficult to talk about the future, in the broadest sense of the term, the world in which one lives and one’s perception of what it really is, is circumscribed to each individual, subjectively, and is made up of different opportunities, which highlight the inequalities. A cosmology this, where it is now more important to deal with the insurgence of new technologies and their adaptation than to cultivate the peculiarities of each individual for the benefit of the collective as well.
During the night of 24 June, it was traditional for Italic and other Northern European historians to join in propitiatory rituals, on this magical evening we were allowed to stay up late, to assist the sun in its seasonal cycle, which will see the slow shortening of the days. This is the night of San Giovanni, which coincides with the beginning of a slow decline, that of the sun, which symbolises a period of transition as it crosses the first half of the year, showing a clear difference between the hours of light and those of darkness, reaching the sun invictus on 25 December. An allegory of this historical moment of transition with its unconquerable processes now in place, but in the case of this particular evening a moment full of hope for the future.
A photographic project describing a contemporary state of mind, a window on the present, but also a metaphor that ambivalently narrates this particular evening. Each photograph will have a double meaning, tracing the moments of “any” day today to that of San Giovanni’s night with its rituals and preparations.
