THE PASSER RIVER - ASSONANCES
BOOK - EXHIBITION I - EXHIBITION II - REVIEW

“Assonance” n.f. [der. from assonare] - Treccani - 2. By extens., in literary language harmonic correspondances of sounds, colours, forms, etc.

Stretching for 42 km, the Passer stream is one of the major tributaries of the Adige in the province of Bolzano.
The common thread of the images of this photographic “marathon” is sound, that which is generated by the waters of the Passer, and not the sight of the river.
The course of the river has become a trace for me, a path to follow to immerse myself in a familiar territory with the spirit of an explorer, avoiding fixed rules, preconceptions or prejudices. By “losing myself” through the Passeier Valley, without a well-defined project, I simply reactivated my curiosity, letting myself be surprised by chance, finding even in apparently common and ordinary things ideas for analysis and observation that have progressively suggested new insights and interesting deviations or retreats.
As it has been increasingly the case for me, it was the final phase of this alienating exploration, reviewing and selecting the images, which inadvertently gave me a few mental short circuits generated by sequences or combinations of images unconsciously interlinked and curiously assonant, in form, colours and, of course, sounds.

RADIO INTERVIEW - "ZEPPELIN" with Paolo Mazzucato - 23.06.2022 RAI BZ