honorable mention
elisabetta riccio italy
Photo © elisabetta riccio
title
RE.STI.TU.ZIO.NE
RETURN is a series of photographs of architectural structures unused: factories and industrial spaces obsolete and abandoned to decay, in which the rust penetrates the skeletons of iron, is in stark contrast to a nature that is slowly eating the re-building .. the beauty expressed by this unusual combination is in itself a paradox that demonstrates how a land 'stolen' from the countryside was just sleeping under a layer of asphalt-blind, awaiting the return and slow re-appropriation of what was originally his.
Experimenting with different printing techniques and the use of double exposure brings her personal projects to life, both in film and digital formats, by photographically exploring the transformation of urban spaces. Her research focuses on investigating, from New Jersey to Mexico, from Italy to Miami, the territorial identity of past communities in order to bring their changes to light. “Id-entity, the Fragmentation of a Moment” is an exploration of industrial archaeologies seeking a new identity, the skeleton of the new Turin, a project that won the Dante Alighieri Foundation prize in 2011 and is currently exhibited at the cultural institution’s branch in Berlin. “In the Middle of Nowhere” is a meditation on the lands of the Navajo, the largest Native American tribe, now settled in Arizona; they cast a long historical shadow, with which America has yet to come to terms. The parallel between the two observations is common ground in the search to understand anthropological spaces experiencing a paradigm shift.
Elisabetta Riccio is born in Turin. She graduated in Project Architecture and she attended specialization courses in Photography at the European Institute of Design.She is specilized in art-work and documentary photography/reportage.
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entry description
The relationship that exists between photography, media representation of reality, and multiple exposure allows me to experiment and most of all to express and emphasize the idea that I want to represent.RETURN is a series of photographs of architectural structures unused: factories and industrial spaces obsolete and abandoned to decay, in which the rust penetrates the skeletons of iron, is in stark contrast to a nature that is slowly eating the re-building .. the beauty expressed by this unusual combination is in itself a paradox that demonstrates how a land 'stolen' from the countryside was just sleeping under a layer of asphalt-blind, awaiting the return and slow re-appropriation of what was originally his.
about the photographer
“More photographs exist than bricks,” wrote Peter Turner in the introduction to his History of Photography (1990). Although it’s true that any attempt to historicise photography is doomed to be incomplete, every snapshot a photographer creates, in telling his story, is a brick that builds the house of his gaze. That of Elizabeth Riccio, photographer, 28, traces the geographies of her wandering through the abandoned cracks of an industrial city, Turin, and the sweeping horizons of her American explorations.Experimenting with different printing techniques and the use of double exposure brings her personal projects to life, both in film and digital formats, by photographically exploring the transformation of urban spaces. Her research focuses on investigating, from New Jersey to Mexico, from Italy to Miami, the territorial identity of past communities in order to bring their changes to light. “Id-entity, the Fragmentation of a Moment” is an exploration of industrial archaeologies seeking a new identity, the skeleton of the new Turin, a project that won the Dante Alighieri Foundation prize in 2011 and is currently exhibited at the cultural institution’s branch in Berlin. “In the Middle of Nowhere” is a meditation on the lands of the Navajo, the largest Native American tribe, now settled in Arizona; they cast a long historical shadow, with which America has yet to come to terms. The parallel between the two observations is common ground in the search to understand anthropological spaces experiencing a paradigm shift.
Elisabetta Riccio is born in Turin. She graduated in Project Architecture and she attended specialization courses in Photography at the European Institute of Design.She is specilized in art-work and documentary photography/reportage.
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