DAVID GIANCATARINA: “GOING VIETNAM”
«Portrait of a Communist country in the era of globalization. Tradition, history and recent mass consumerism… the most diverse influences mixed along the rice fields of the North.» These few words by David Giancatarina, Marseille-based photographer with a strong propensity for human landscapes and their inner conflicts, perfectly summarize the intent of his photographic research in the heart of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, with sincerely exciting results. The sense of disorientation, at times of subtle but real disbelief, is inevitable in the face of landscapes crystallized in the collective memory as suspended across the passage of time, yet spoiled by individual elements of an invasive and harsh modernity, that in a gesture demolishes and reconstructs spatial and cultural references without any mediation.