This is one of the most unusual portfolios we received this week. It is entitled Hectare by Pietro Bologna and was sent to us by Elena Carotti from Lab 1930.
Hectare is a unique photographic project, conceived and realised from 2017 to 2024, exploring the southern suburbs of Milan, in particular the area of Cascina Battivacco, where the artist took daily images of the terrain during walks with his dog, using a simple mobile phone. This artistic process, which began almost by chance, became a ritual and temporal practice, suspended in time, where each photograph sent to a small group of friends generated different responses, creating a dialogue between images and words. As the project developed, the author began to explore the idea of building an archive, a hectare of photography that would grow on itself, deliberately filtering the images through the lens of an old mobile phone to highlight the limitations of the medium. However, as the artist himself points out, “at the moment of transforming it into a project, something born without expectations or aims, totally spontaneous, I felt the need to expose the medium used to confront the malice of the compromised gaze. That is why I decided to show at Lab 1930. Fotografia contemporanea a sub-category of the same project –which I called from Ettaro–, which consists of blurring the images, making them even less recognisable”. The attentive poetics of his gaze transforms this expanse of land, seemingly devoid of memory andidentity, into many short and intense narratives in which one can really get lost, revealing the details that he arranges one after the other, words of an infinite visionary story.
Lab 1930. Fotografia contemporanea
Via Mantova 21
20135 Milano
Tel.: + 39 347 8001904
www.lab1930.com
IG: lab.1930
