honorable mention
Fabio Agatino italy
title
Yet Another Day
Several speculations have been made in the past, by the competent authorities, on how to retrain and redeploy the village, making it the center of a project that aims at enhancing the rural tourism. A place self-sufficient in terms of energy by installing technologies that have allowed to feed on itself through geothermal and photovoltaic systems.
The remains of the ancient ruins seem to streak across the Plains as boats would do with sea waves disapearing inexorably drifting.
What is today the village Wolf?
In its essence of place seen as rural settlement, Village Wolf could be considered in the present state of things like a "utopia", a space that doesn't exist because in fact it is no longer possible to treat it as such, as only a skeleton, a skeleton of what it represented. However, it is undeniable that "utopia" we can only understand what really does not exist, on the other hand, stating that it is a "heterotopia" meaning "utopias located", real places the result not of imagination I thought. A non-place par excellence, an localized well elsewhere. As Foucault claimed, the heterotopia par excellence is the ship, an abandoned place, at the same time, the infinity of the sea, as seems to be the fate of the village and its last inhabitants, shipwrecked in a place without place.
After a few years he studied photography preferring the kind of journalistic reportage and attending various courses and seminars in the Etna area .
He has participated in various exhibitions and group photographs.
www.fabioagatino.com
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entry description
Pietro Lupo village is a rural settlement in the province of Catania. Built in 1940 at the behest of the fascist regime at the hands of the colonization of the Sicilian Latifundia (ECLS), the village was almost completely abandoned, with the exception of a few inhabitants despite huge difficulties of survival. Water resources are not of the best electrical service is non-existent.Several speculations have been made in the past, by the competent authorities, on how to retrain and redeploy the village, making it the center of a project that aims at enhancing the rural tourism. A place self-sufficient in terms of energy by installing technologies that have allowed to feed on itself through geothermal and photovoltaic systems.
The remains of the ancient ruins seem to streak across the Plains as boats would do with sea waves disapearing inexorably drifting.
What is today the village Wolf?
In its essence of place seen as rural settlement, Village Wolf could be considered in the present state of things like a "utopia", a space that doesn't exist because in fact it is no longer possible to treat it as such, as only a skeleton, a skeleton of what it represented. However, it is undeniable that "utopia" we can only understand what really does not exist, on the other hand, stating that it is a "heterotopia" meaning "utopias located", real places the result not of imagination I thought. A non-place par excellence, an localized well elsewhere. As Foucault claimed, the heterotopia par excellence is the ship, an abandoned place, at the same time, the infinity of the sea, as seems to be the fate of the village and its last inhabitants, shipwrecked in a place without place.
about the photographer
Fabio Agatino , born in Catania in 1982 , he began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania right after graduation . Always passionate about photography and cinema, began his artistic research studying and putting on the field notions cinemas learned to various university courses with several short films being able to compete in the Festival of Taormina in the Taormina NICE for Best Short Sicilian .After a few years he studied photography preferring the kind of journalistic reportage and attending various courses and seminars in the Etna area .
He has participated in various exhibitions and group photographs.
www.fabioagatino.com
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