2016

To learn from the stone: frequent it often

In “An education by Stone”, the Brasilian poet João Cabral de Melo Neto highlights how this natural and apparently unanimated element can give lessons about different aspects of human existence, such as economy, poetry and morality.
At first sight they may appear hard and cold, but rocks can be really useful.
In the Verzasca Valley, people dwell in stone houses built by their ancestors three hundred years ago. This extraordinary symbiosis with the stone from the mountains is an admirable example of adaptation, which is also maintained through its manipulation.
The poet claims: “To learn from the stone: frequent it often”
In this project I focus on the relationship between the stone and those women and men who live surrounded by it and whose survival depends on it.
Developed in Verzasca Foto Festival Artistic Residency.