2020 – Stefano Conti – Portfolio https://www.stefanoconti.info Artist and photographer Wed, 29 Mar 2023 14:07:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.stefanoconti.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cropped-profilePNG-32x32.png 2020 – Stefano Conti – Portfolio https://www.stefanoconti.info 32 32 He Found An Old Blue Ocean https://www.stefanoconti.info/portfolio-item/he-found-an-old-blue-ocean/ https://www.stefanoconti.info/portfolio-item/he-found-an-old-blue-ocean/#respond Fri, 01 Jan 2021 12:02:43 +0000 https://www.stefanoconti.info/?post_type=portfolio-item&p=3394

Description

By intertwining his own photographs of fossils with found video footage from YouTube, Conti creates a narrative that revolves around the orogenesis process which formed the Alps. For hundreds of millions of years, these mountains have been overwhelmed by water. They were the seabed of the ocean Tethys which, extinguishing, left behind fossils of fish and corals. Nowadays, they are still present on the Alps surfaces constituting an undoubted proof of the process.

By employing this small window on the alpine history as a starting point, he investigates the relationship amongst images, the notion of truth, and how they can be used to create evidence of facts. Grounded in epistemological theories, he questions the contemporary problems of image dematerialization in the ether and how societies trust the knowledge that these images convey.

 

InkJet Prints 106 x 140 cm, four-channel video (5 minutes, 27 seconds)
Dimensions variable

 

Installation view:
Monitor Gallery, Gothenburg, SE, 2020

Selection of images from the series
white fossil standing in a black abstract background by artist Stefano Conti
fossil of a leave coloured with red and blue light by artist Stefano Conti
fishart fossil made out of plaster leaning against a textile by artist Stefano Conti
fishart fossil made out of plaster leaning against a green backgroudn Stefano Conti
small round fossil laying on a blue paper by artist Stefano Conti
fossil leaning against a structure made of paper and glass by artist Stefano Conti
leave fossil made out of plaster supported by a screw by artist Stefano Conti
squared art fossil made out of plaster leaning against a wooden structure by artist Stefano Conti
He found an old blue ocean - Fossils - Stefano Conti
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Description

‘When I killed your tulips’ explores the archaeological notion of the social biography of objects. That is, how objects’ meanings can change and are renegotiated throughout history depending on the social interactions that they become entangled in. In this sense, objects are constantly transformed over time and they accumulate biographies as they repeatedly shift between ownerships and places.

 

Images and texts by me
Design by Noemi Gottardi
Cover by Giulia Beretta
40 pages, blue staples
20 x 28 cm
Self – published
2020

 

“When I killed your tulips” is also an installation

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