Mountain: Other Perspectives with Gabriele Onere and Giulia Degasperi
30.8.2021, 9:00 PM
Lab27 is pleased to announce, as part of the collateral activities for the exhibition La montagna. Immagini e disincanto (The Mountain: Images and Disenchantment), the fourteenth edition of INCONTRI DI FOTOGRAFIA, which will take place on Monday, August 30 at 9:00 PM, streamed live on Lab27’s YouTube channel.
Giulia Degasperi and Gabriele Onere, both from Trentino-Alto Adige, present projects that portray life in the mountains with personality, breaking free from clichés, static or purely analytical views, and privileging introspective and meaningful perspectives.
In the series These Dark Mountains, Giulia Degasperi captures the lives of people working in the Italian Alps. The project was carried out during the traditional grazing season and sensitively documents the transhumance from the valleys to the mountain slopes. Immersed in some of Europe’s richest and most biodiverse landscapes, her photography also bears witness to the solitude of young shepherds aware of the challenges of this ancient tradition. In their portraits, there is a subtle derision for a hostile modernity and a surrender to vivid spontaneity. In an economy that tends to standardize behaviors and products, limiting access to land and confining it to rigid patterns, how long can this way of life remain sustainable? Perhaps as long as there is someone to whom its possibility can be told, there is hope…
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In the series Intermezzo, Gabriele Onere explores the common human condition of dissatisfaction that leads people to leave their place of origin in search of peace and fulfillment elsewhere. This situation often evolves into a definitive openness to new experiences and a rejection of one’s roots. It can create an emotional detachment that, upon returning, destabilizes the inner balance found while being away. Prompted by a lockdown period in Trento, the photographer embarks on a rediscovery of a rural, enclosed, and self-sufficient place, along with its customs and unique features. From a deeply personal confrontation, a reflective confession, a sense of lost belonging, and a desire to confront perceived incompatibility, emerges a need for understanding and acceptance of the place where he was born and raised.
Mountain: Other Perspectives with Gabriele Onere and Giulia Degasperi
30.8.2021, 9:00 PM
Lab27 is pleased to announce, as part of the collateral activities for the exhibition La montagna. Immagini e disincanto (The Mountain: Images and Disenchantment), the fourteenth edition of INCONTRI DI FOTOGRAFIA, which will take place on Monday, August 30 at 9:00 PM, streamed live on Lab27’s YouTube channel.
Giulia Degasperi and Gabriele Onere, both from Trentino-Alto Adige, present projects that portray life in the mountains with personality, breaking free from clichés, static or purely analytical views, and privileging introspective and meaningful perspectives.
In the series These Dark Mountains, Giulia Degasperi captures the lives of people working in the Italian Alps. The project was carried out during the traditional grazing season and sensitively documents the transhumance from the valleys to the mountain slopes. Immersed in some of Europe’s richest and most biodiverse landscapes, her photography also bears witness to the solitude of young shepherds aware of the challenges of this ancient tradition. In their portraits, there is a subtle derision for a hostile modernity and a surrender to vivid spontaneity. In an economy that tends to standardize behaviors and products, limiting access to land and confining it to rigid patterns, how long can this way of life remain sustainable? Perhaps as long as there is someone to whom its possibility can be told, there is hope…
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In the series Intermezzo, Gabriele Onere explores the common human condition of dissatisfaction that leads people to leave their place of origin in search of peace and fulfillment elsewhere. This situation often evolves into a definitive openness to new experiences and a rejection of one’s roots. It can create an emotional detachment that, upon returning, destabilizes the inner balance found while being away. Prompted by a lockdown period in Trento, the photographer embarks on a rediscovery of a rural, enclosed, and self-sufficient place, along with its customs and unique features. From a deeply personal confrontation, a reflective confession, a sense of lost belonging, and a desire to confront perceived incompatibility, emerges a need for understanding and acceptance of the place where he was born and raised.
