Maura Banfo from Turin
Your new daily ritual ...
I listen to the silence, around and inside me. A glimpse of the sky from my window accompanies me every day and every day I photograph it when I get up and in the evening before going to sleep.
How your way of working has changed?
The lack of mobility has certainly changed everything. Time has become ambiguous, you feel like you have so much available but then the days fly by... I don't have a particularly centered rhythm, and I don't mind at all. I live in the present. I can't focus on tomorrow. I try to dream about it a little’ my way.
We are dealing with a new time and space. What are you discovering or rediscovering about yourself?
In this time “suspended” I listened to the silence of the little things, I looked around me with new eyes. I didn't think I would find a balance in this imbalance, of knowing how to really listen to myself and give space to a part of myself that I often neglect: the breath.
How do you imagine the world, when everything will start again?
Here it is… I dream of a world where there is more care, more listening and less compulsiveness.
We are realizing that we can live with less mobility?
The world seems to be in constant motion even without us! I think the message is very clear: we are guests, we are not necessary. Nature continues the cycle even without us, and even better. And never more than today, we immobile people can only stand and watch.
Maura banfo, Turin 1969. After years of "wandering" restlessness to explore the world, finds his "nest" in his hometown where he begins a research through photography as the predominant language. Maura Banfo has always been fascinated by the subject: in his decades-long work – dotted with exhibitions, artist residencies and many awards – he carefully investigated by observing reality, starting from the objects that surrounded her and deciding to return them with the photographic medium as new entities stripped of their meaning, architectures to investigate, entities to be observed from new points of view to open them up to new codes of meaning. His path is characterized by an internal coherence that is rarely found in the work of Italian artists of his generation. The strength of his work lies in maintaining his own creative imprint and poetics clearly recognisable, but in a continuous discovery of new facets and points of view: although a preference for photography prevails, He also works masterfully with video, design and installation. Work with Il Fondaco, Bra and Muratcentiventidue Contemporary Art, Bari. www.maurabanfo.com