"After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir." (…)
“Yet the absence of the imagination had Itself to be imagined. The great pond, The plain sense of it, without reflections, leaves,
Mud, water like dirty glass, expressing silence
Of a sort, silence of a rat come out to see,
The great pond and its waste of the lilies, all this
Had to be imagined as an inevitable knowledge,
Required, as a necessity requires.”
Wallace Stevens - The Plain Sense of Things
The Plain Sense of Things
A selection from Mauro Fontana’s work
Mauro Fontana (Canicattì, 1993) was born in Sicily. Thanks to his studies in Architecture at Politecnico di Torino and Universidad Politecnica de Madrid he now mixes different visual languages in his works, alternating his rigorous architecture-driven side of “looking” at things, with his poetic photographic one.
He uses photography to explore landscapes and contemporary cities in a critical way, focusing on the democratic nature of qualitative space, the dynamics of transformation of the territory and what the landscape means for mankind.
Mauro Fontana currently lives and works in Turin, where he is involved in his personal photographic projects, and also in academic research and in teaching socio-spatial inequalities in urban and fragile territories.
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Website https://www.maurofontana.eu/