Towards the voices
Video art, photo-still-video
Through a bilingual dialogue (English and Italian), a solitary wanderer calls out to the landscape. The replies, spoken in Italian, seem to come from the place itself – though it remains unclear whether they arise from the world outside or from within the wanderer’s own mind. What unfolds is not a story but a shifting perception.
Here, listening draws the wanderer further into the landscape, until the sense of direction begins to fray, and only one question remains: should I stay or should I go?
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Related works – photo-still video
I make films that slow down seeing, where looking becomes a form of listening.
My process begins with curiosity about what persists at the edge of attention: a shoebox of ribbon cards from a brocante, each bearing a carefully inked date; an afternoon curtain responding to wind; ivy slowly overtaking trees along the Po River. I photograph these moments and objects, then arrange the images into sequences guided by duration rather than plot. Instead of telling stories, I am interested in how long it takes before recognition gives way to deeper attention.
Poetry enters as a parallel rhythm. Words appear gradually, incompletely at first, asking to be read at the pace of breathing rather than information-gathering.
In Towards the Voices, language becomes a bilingual dialogue that seems to emerge from the landscape itself. This creates a double attentiveness: to image and text, neither complete without the other, both requiring patience.
What draws me to these presences – whether intimate objects or reshaped trees – is what they carry beyond their original use or form, a quality that remains transferable. Not nostalgia, but something that persists beyond context.
These films create space for a quiet encounter with time itself, where dated cards, moving fabric, or overgrown trunks become ways of listening – and of being present with what continues, wordlessly, beyond us.
