
253km E, 2010, Tirage numérique, 60 x 40 cm.
I never thought of wanting to do more and do not imagine what else could I do but this.
I think art is a scientific discipline, it requires, in his practice (theoretical and formal), a research. The artist, as a scientist, identify a wide range of research and conduct an investigatio relates to various contexts. Both the artistic investigation, then the scientific, always began from a crucial thing: observation.
The observation does not concern only in the visual field is but includes all the apparatus that determines a person (body ,geographical environment, social climate, wheather, etc.).
In 2006 I began to ask to myself How importance is Utopia in the construction of a human territory?
Human territory, an area does not belongs to the nations, it does not under the jurisdiction of the governments, does not bounded by borders and customs, but a surface shared by all, an area that where humanity can still be experience.
In a period of general crisis in which we see the utopias dying , human imagination live under the restriction and plessure of naked life and the difficulty to think on the future. What remain usi concern on the reality, everything that goes through the daily and experience that we can do in as around.
My project is developed around the trekking, tours walking in different areas around the world. The Trekking is a navigation method and analysis of geographical and social places. In based on spaces walked, the trek is done taking into account certain features such as space conditions time, the distance, the change time, climate and other objective data from scientific studies outside the my research or known in popoular wisdom.
Before to make the trek, I use to observe the geographical map of territories in order to observe in its geographical features. On the map I trace the route only after walk, in order to be independent from a pre-established route. After that analyze the general characteristics architectural, historical and political place (type of settlements, inhabitants, organization, acquaintances). Then, I walk about the space. I and I note, as planned, the places. Each trekking has its duration (three days until seven months). During the trek I use to do a series of photographic images provide the environment as they were observed and how they were lived.
Each image is made in a way that work both individually then within of a series.
The spatial analysis is also emotional matrix.
During the trek I collect all the possible material for further work on experience of crossing. The territory through the laboratory where it becomes carries out research and the experience is the force that sets in motion a series of theoretical and practical reflections and proposals.
The place of research work is no longer the study, but experience with the territorial difficulties and contradictions, the history and harsh reality. Good or bad, pleasant or malignancy, is still real.
Once possibility to transform spaces in human lands, shared by all people is in one of human primary activities: the displacement. Unlike the walk, which is only physical activity for those who can physically do so, the displacement is for everyone, therefore we can stop to move only dead (leaving opened and adjourned the matter when a man can be defined as dead).
Always feel immigrants, going beyond any kind of boundary defines categories.
Displace untill to think about the possibility of move from one area to another without a passport, well beyond any identity question.
Therefore the only race that we can declare to have is the human one.