Arrêts fréquents

La façon moderne de voir consiste à voir par fragments.
Susan Sontag, Garder le sens mais altérer la forme

Je hais les voyages et les explorateurs
Claude Lévi-Strauss,Tristes tropiques

Una volta lontani,
da tutto questo cinema alla fine
in testa cosa rimane?
Una fila di esempi, una serie
di facciate di case, rapide e serie.
Umberto Fiori Esempi, Esempi

Il treno porta ritardo
e non si muove, non parte.
Umberto Fiori, Sosta, Esempi

Arrêts fréquents – which means Frequents stops – is my first series based on images taken from a window. Title is coming from a sticker very easy to find in France on cars used for delivery. The starting point of this essai is a thought on the link between photography and travel, which is still a compass point of so many photographic works. But going in depth into this classic practice- I go elsewhere searching for stunning images – I can’t see more than a colonialist heritage of exoticism and overall this endless faith in the photographic truth: things are, things exist, I got evidences, photographs.

In Arrêts fréquents I go for a ground zero of landscape, letting things come to me through this archetypal frame, the train window. Collecting all those fragments just as memory of this gesture: train stops, my eyes go through the window.

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Viagens e paisagens
Começo da viagem:
espremer como laranja esta hora tardia.
Sem olhos, mas com túneis, memória
confortável na paisagem
que é sempre a mesma aos gomos
variados: tu (sem descrições maiores)
No escuro embalador que me faz mal,
uma sede maior que nem o sumo apaga
nem o fumo que faz dentro do túnel
Tremente carruagem na velocidade
atónita do tempo (que o momento já
tarda e o conforto afinal só ilusão)
E incómodo caroço é o bastante
para rasgar o chão
Ana Luísa Amaral, Poesia reunida 1990-2005

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