‘Quarantine’ – a video by Matias Cantella
«I am from Buenos Aires , Argentina. We are passing a quarantine of one month and is going to be extended. I saw the same pictures everyday so I decided to film it and mix with classical music. I think that the natures movements has a connection with this type of music. Communication between loneliness, music and nature.»
Our personal suggestions – words by Alice De Santis
You wake up in the morning in the same usual bedroom, you go to the bathroom to brush your teeth and while you look yourself in the mirror you recognise that nothing has changed, it’s the same you. You have breakfast and it still seems that nothing has changed, it’s the same old routine but something is missing. Frenzy noise is missing, as well as the voice of the city that speaks to you from the first morning lights. Suddenly you realize that you are surrounded by deafening silence and our ears which are accustomed to chaos, slightly suffers from this lack of sounds. If you focus for a moment, however, you realize that the city is not silent but it dances through sounds and melodies that we had never been able to perceive before.
Nature finally becomes the new soundtrack of our days. Now she is allowed to speak; now that she is no longer dominated by frenzy she can make herself be heard. You wake up in the morning with the birds chirping, you hear the rustle of the leaves and the rain beating gently on the windows. You no longer feel alone, you begin enriching yourself through this new symphony. We have never been used to stay still. Living in the big cities, we have always had the bad habit of filling our agendas with commitments, meetings, traffic, quarrels and mechanical noises. We have never been used to spend our days in the same place, between four wall, those four walls we would have wanted to escape from since when we were children, just to live the world around us.
As the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa once said “There is only one shut window and the whole world is outside; and a dream of what could be seen if the window would open, which is never what you see when the window opens.”, that window, which had always stayed closed, is now our window on the world.
Matias Cantella’s bio
Matias Cantella is a self-educated photographer, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He’s 27 years old and he has been taking photos for 5 years with a Nikon Fm2 that his grandmother gave him believing that it did not work anymore. He studied Economics, he graduated in it and he currently works teaching and researching but his true passion is photography. He likes to see photography as a visual diary that documents things that he sees in the day to day but that isolated in a frame can generate to the person who sees it, diverse sensations that perhaps in the day to day go unnoticed.