FLASH
Shkruar nga Pamfleti
Photo exhibition "open air" Gorzegno, Cuneo, Italy
From July 15 to September 15, 2023
I read an article in which the author says "animals don't look at us anymore" but we are the ones who look at them and photograph them, outside the perspective of an independent existence, where contemporary society constantly seeks to give it its own form. This removing the old connection between the human and non-human dimensions of wild animals, our fellow historical travelers!
In short, we are no longer surprised by animals as the main part of advertising spots directing us to simplified consumer products, or taking ironic selfies ready to be shared on many social networks!
In today's view of animals, they are defined simply as baby icons of cats, or small puppies of dogs, that fill the networks with images of animals thrown into a space and time completely different from being real!
We are thus presented with an animal world in which the law of the absurd reigns, a nature immersed in nowhere, in a limited, undefined, unknown space! While we, the spectators, have more and more the idea of a world of animals concentrated in a strange size, between reality and disruption!
Between these points of view, Edmond Kaçeli intervenes. He, with the shots of the camera, simply restores us to the attractive wild nature without gloves and prejudices, which obviously translates into the need to present our other side: the wild animal!
In contrast to what we see in the images of fashion advertisements, Kacel's animals are not metaphors of human vices or virtues, but a snake is a snake, a wild boar is simply a wild boar; and so on, one with their clear symbolic meaning; in the specific case "origin of life - snake" and "life force - wild boar"!
Edmond's photographs abandon the traditional clichés of wild scheme/object rules of simple descriptive and illustrative reportage of militant wildlife photography.
Edmond simply photographs them, brings them alive to their habitat, without disturbing them, with the typical skill that distinguishes him! In other words, it presents them while paying respect to wild creatures as "the other who exists like all of us"
Finally, as the poet Fernando Pessoa wrote, "Man does not know more than other animals; but he knows less! They (living things) know what they need to know! Humans, no!"
Claudio Lorenzoni
Curator of the exhibition
Director of the Open Air Museum, Camo, Italy
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