A ROCK IS A RIVER Fotofestival VERZASCA

Verzasca Residency

Inspired by the natural designs that occur in the Verzasca Valley, the residence work is presented as an installation of photographic pictures taken in situ. Far from the urban world and the mist of digital unreality, “A Rock Is A River” invites to an immersivevisual environment.

The sound of bells, prints in different dimensions and techniques impose themselvesto the viewer’s attention and the space. The subjects flow from one picture into the other, the stone liquefies, the water solidifies. The photographs get out of their frame,expanding in transparency and responding to the traditional stone walls.The surfaces reinvent themselves through the materialisation process; prints on fabric, the chemicalaction of Cilit Bang on sensitive film or prints on painted paper (as a counterpart tothe controlled rendering of digital images).

The work is developed through a multitude of stratified images deprived of their autonomy to realize a poetic and sensorial collage.

Residency with Tiago Coehlo