Via Sant'Agostino

Palermo, Itália, 2019

Alessandra é veterinária e vive em Palermo com alguns animais, entre eles uma cadela American Wolfdog, praticamente uma loba verdadeira. É um animal extremamente desconfiado de humanos do sexo masculino, mas tentámos fazer esta sessão fotográfica todos juntos num vasto e muito decadente palácio aristocrático no centro da cidade, na Via Sant’Agostino, onde havia espaço e, sobretudo, ninguém por perto. A loba nunca se aproximou de mim, mas deixou-se fotografar. Segundo a Alessandra, se eu fosse homem, nem sequer teríamos conseguido estar ali dentro.
Descrição do projeto fotográfico:
A teoria da evolução de Darwin, combinada com os resultados da neurociência e da genética, defende que somos, de facto, replicantes produzidos através de um mecanismo elementar de tentativa e erro. Talvez por isso tenhamos medo do objeto biológico desconhecido, sem perceber que nós próprios somos esse objeto. Humanos e replicantes fundem-se, o entrelaçamento visual e narrativo das imagens não estabelece fronteiras mútuas, mostrando-nos humanos a perder gradualmente a humanidade e replicantes a ganhá-la. Não será esta troca contínua uma prova da incapacidade humana de admitir que, na verdade, somos a mesma coisa?

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Alessandra is a veterinarian who lives in Palermo with some animals, among them is a female American Wolfdog, practically a real wolf. She is an animal that is extremely wary of male humans, but we tried to have this experience of shooting all together in a vast, very decadent aristocratic palace in the city center Via Sant’Agostino, where there was space and especially no people around. The she-wolf never approached me, but she did get her picture taken. According to Alessandra, if I had been a man, we could not have even been in there.
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Darwin's evolutionary theory, combined with the results of neuroscience and genetics, argues that we are indeed replicants produced through an elementary mechanism of trial and error. It is perhaps for this reason that we are fearful of the unknown biological object, without realising that we ourselves are that object. Humans and replicants merge, the visual and narrative interweaving of images fails to establish mutual boundaries, showing us humans gradually losing humanity and replicants gaining it. Isn’t this continuous exchange a proof of human’s inability to admit that we
actually are the same thing?”
 

Photographer: Lucrezia Testa Iannilli

Title: Via Sant'Agostino

Serie: Animalia

Location: Palermo, Itália

Year of work: 2019

Technique: Digital

Condition: New

Signature: Signed

Certificate of authenticity: Included

Frame: Not Included

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Fine Art Giclée Print S | 40x60 cm | 15,7x23,6 in Edition of 30 Limited Edition
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Lucrezia Testa Iannilli

Lucrezia Testa Iannilli

Italy | 1977

Lucrezia Testa Ianilli is a Photographer and performer who employs interdisciplinary tools of investigation. Distinctive features of her artistic practice are the open-air, almost exclusively site-specific photographic macro-installations, as well as performance cycles in decontextualised spaces in which the human and animal bodies are employed.

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