History of people and oceans
” That night I had the wind turbines, as it happens, unexpectedly below the skin and nostrils remote a joy, a secret memories of those naked as our bodies, we would say that they are ingrained from childhood. The beach where I was born was peopled with swimmers in summer and baked in the sun. They were three, four months of a life always unexpected and different, restless, rough, like a trip or a move. The houses and streets were crowded with children, families, half-naked women to the point that they didn’t look like women and were called the bathers. The two guys had names like mine. I made friends and took them by boat, or running away with them in the vineyards. The boys wanted to be bathers of the marina from morning to night…”
Cesare Pavese, Fine d’agosto
My first memory of a child is the sea. The sea with its long horizons, and the white light, the taste of the wind and the smell of salt. The sea was the world of dating and loneliness. Where I learned to swim and to watch. These pictures are the evocation of an almost dream-like world, that could be north or south, that could be everywhere.
The time is past, but remembrance is still there, the first memory, where I wondered why the sand was hot, who was the woman who smiles, the other girls’ names. And the mermaids swimming in the pool near the sea..I remember the rocks where I saw a man the first time, and all the white light that covered everything. And the more I looked at the horizon, the more I realized that the world ended there.
Marilisa Cosello, 2012.
Marilisa Cosello is born in South of Italy in 1978. High school in Kent (UK), Degree in Communication in Milan (Italy), Master in photography at IED Milano, News photographer in Milan, published on various magazine in Italy (Corriere della sera, Repubblica, Elle, A). Participation to Biennal of Art in Sarajevo with photography project on the city, Selected for Group Exibition at Copenhagen Photofestival 2012. Assistant to Paul Elledge at TPW. Workshops with Antoine D’Agata, Paolo Woods, Tano D’Amico, Christina Caujolle.
