During the 2010 edition of the Savignano Festival I had the pleasure of viewing the portfolio by Luca Ferrari, and in particular the project “Flowing In The City”. A series of photographs that won me over. An intelligent inquiry, told from the sensitive perspective of the river. He reveals a hidden landscape but also a discrete as much as inexorable nature. A story on the edge of the city where definitions and convinctions seems to fade beyond our expectations. A work in progress that we hope to tell again in the future.
Steve Bisson
«The work consists of a personal vision of the metropolis, viewed from below, from the river. Like Italo Calvino, in his book “Invisible Cities”, describes urban environments fruit of the imagination, telling the simultaneous multiplicity of a world in which we delude ourselves to know and it completely controls, fueling frustration and confusion, so I wanted to reflect on how the city where we live can look different depending on our point of view and the environment in which we interact. From this vantage point we see the changing of the city. The images collected during this trip, along the banks of the rivers, describe a city dipped, dominated and invaded by nature. A nature that starting from the forgotten and abandoned river takes over everything that is alien. The man is no longer omnipresent, and appears represented by his “urbanity”, the struggle and resistance against the fate of the surrounding environment».
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