Scenario on show at Diecixdieci Photography Festival

Scenario will be on show at Diecixdieci Photography Festival, opening 17 September in Gonzaga, Italy.
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I.D. Interview_Fotonica

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ID Interview aims to be an overview about how selected contemporary authors see the concept of the Digital Identity. ID Interview is a project by Fotonica.
Liquid Nostalgia is the multimedia work I produced as a contribution to this subject.

Liquid Nostalgia takes its cue from the concept of 'liquid modernity’ by Zygmunt Bauman in which the problem of modern identity is addressed through the metaphor of liquidity, to indicate the transience of any construction in our time, the lack of roots and stability. While in the modern age everything was given as a solid construction, today every aspect of life can be artificially reshaped: reality has become too flexible to build something stable and lasting over time. To an idea of 'digital reality' as virtual, infinitely replicable and flexible, I contrast an 'analogue reality', fragile, that ends and dissolves forever once 'submerged'.
It is an invitation to accept the inevitability and non-replicability of existence, recalling some concepts, such as that of 'nostalgia', expressed in the novel Quel che affidiamo al vento (What we entrust to the wind) by Laura Imai Messina, in which people who have lost someone in the Tōhoku tsunami of March 11, 2011, travel from allover Japan to reach a place where, from a cabin with an unconnected phone, they talk to their loved ones in the afterlife.
Life is loss and rebirth in a continuous cycle, but only by accepting its uncertainty and taking the risk to truly live and in relationship with others we can build solid memories and endure through time.

"(...)She had convinced herself that nostalgia had nothing to do with memory, that one could indeed feel itstrongly only for things of which one had not had direct experience."
(Quel che affidiamo al vento, Laura Imai Messina)