ATLAS (of underwater worlds)
What happens when reality loses coherence and our mental landscape fragments under the weight of continuous stimuli, global anxieties and a sense of profound disconnection?
New research on so-called cognitive fatigue and the growing use of escapist practices – from extreme meditation to the use of psychotropic substances, to immersive virtuality – indicates an urgency: that of going through the crisis, rather than avoiding it. In this context,
Atlas of the underwater Worlds is like a visual investigation into altered states of consciousness as a response (or symptom) to a contemporary mental condition. Divided into three states – Hypnosis, Schism, Return – the work constructs an immersive and subjective path: a symbolic journey inspired both by Bosch’s Triptych and by a mapping of interiority.
Hypnosis is the point of fluctuation: the images evoke the entry into an intermediate state between dream, trance and suspension. Matter dissolves, the body enters into dialogue with the invisible. Schism represents the rupture, the perceptive and emotional crisis. The light becomes harder, the fragments multiply, the space compresses. Return is not a resolution, but a transformation. After the descent, a new threshold opens: the world emerges changed, as after a deep immersion. The project presents itself as an imaginary and sensorial map: a non-geographical atlas, but an emotional and perceptive one, in which photography builds worlds starting from an interior experience. Atlas of the underwater Worlds is placed in the wake of artistic practices that investigate the unconscious, the threshold between visible and invisible, the fragility of presence. A work that questions the very idea of lucidity as the only criterion of truth.
Edition: limited to 10 copies each, printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Bright White fine art paper in 45x30cm format.
They are all accompanied by their own certificate of authenticity and signed on the back.
Year of production: from 2024, on going
