this.placed

This.placed is a project by a young photographer looking to explore contemporary society, its delusions and contradictions. Working primarily with film photography, this.placed brings a particular perspective on urban and industrial architecture, a very much contemporary look, despite the analogic medium, one with a flair for materials, reflections, obstructions and other symbols representing the logic of industrial accumulation, a logic that permeates everywhere despite its inherent incompatibility with human nature.

The research comes from a feeling of unbelonging towards modern society. A feeling of having been displaced, being forced to flee, restlessness and suspension before a doomed future and thus a general rejection directed towards the lingering presence of a logic that, in this photos, seem as having already passed. The consciousness of historic mistakes and injustices and the total lack of valid alternatives to draw upon, are captured in the emptiness of modern skyscrapers and abandoned furnaces, in the fictitious comfort of a neon lights and in the meaningless loop of a rollercoaster. Everything seems abandoned, misplaced and in desperate need of meaning, and the logic of progress, of economic growth, scientific rigour and ‘wealth’ comes undone, it decomposes like toxic waste, like a misjudgement that we collectively need to face.

People are but passing shadows, the human figure is rare, and always put in perspective with something larger, more eternal, in a continuous juxtaposition between the passing nature of life, meaning and culture and the eternity of time. What is now, soon will be in ruins, is becoming history. The ‘future past’, as the artist calls it, is the ultimate subject of this project: the continuous morphing of the present into the past, the revelation of obsolescence through architectural and street photography.