Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream is the title of the work that I present this year's fifth edition of the week photography. This is a project begun in 2009 during the holiday "study" in the U.S.. The two-week workshop to ' ICP , museums and galleries, and travel in the vast and desolate places of the far west. All this has helped to shape an idea that has become a project and is now on display in via Boiardi 4 / 1, in Reggio Emilia. A project in progress, however, continues and is destined to widen.
The night has always had a positive effect on me. At night they feed ideas, visions expand, the choices are less DefInt. The night is a place of reconciliation with myself but it is also the site of the fears and anxieties, the voids created by the shadows, the tremors caused by noise. Terror and enthusiasm live together and the two sides of the same reality. It is precisely in the darkest night that my photographic visions take shape, often inspired by literary references, painting and film. The total darkness is a barrier, a limit but it can also become a gateway to something new and unknown. The characters that reads these landscapes seem to be opposed to that being real dark and visible, but at the same time remind us how tenuous and thin the limit from which opens up another world and obscure. It is precisely this ambivalence that springs from the soul of this work. On the one hand, the visible and brings anguish and fears. Across the fantasy that is emancipated from any influence rational and can roam free at last.
© Elena Fantini
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