Grounded: photo series

Grounded: photo series takes inspiration from the Mesopotamian tale “The Descent of Ištar into the Underworld”, the series portrays the outcome of the collective excavation action carried out as part of the exhibition “The source of the work” curated by Davide Silvioli.

The “voids” created with the hands are transformed into gestational chambers, in which the possibility of another system is incubated, which has no recognizable form from an anthropocentric point of view.

In the photographic series the concept of “emptiness” is further emphasized by the deconstruction of the image and the absence of portions of it, while the overturned frame evokes a crossing of the threshold of the underground world, highlighting what the eye commonly does not want or he is not used to seeing.