Silvia Camporesi from Forlì
With which objects and spaces of your daily life are you interacting the most?
I have a daily relationship with my library. Before confinement I glanced at her in passing every time I entered the house, thinking that it was particularly messy and that I should rearrange it, giving a systematic order to the volumes. Tidying up was the first thing I did and I realized the amount of books I bought and still haven't read. So every day I look at them, I choose new ones, I leaf through them, I read them in the evening and at night. I'm currently reading three at the same time: a novel (Barney's version on Mordecai Richler), a collection of short stories (The drowned and the saved by Primo Levi) and a wise man (Wild readers by Giuseppe Montesano). The other objects with which I have a daily relationship are my two daughters' toys, and also in this case, I spend part of the day tidying them up.
What you're missing? Your personal experience of "absence" and "lack".
I miss travelling, go around presenting my work and my books, interact with the public; I miss teaching, I miss having an exhibition (I missed three rather important ones); I miss relationships, contacts, hugs, the spontaneity with which we approached friends, I miss going out to lunch, see exhibitions, go to the cinema. I miss swimming and walking.
I'm thirsty for experiences outside the home and I'm saturated with computer screens, of people seen digitally, of voice delays and conversations that stop due to lines.
How do you imagine the world, when everything will start again?
Historically, pandemics have forced people to break with the past and quickly invent something new. We should cross this gap by lightening ourselves, removing gravity from things and rethinking our lives in a more balanced way, more spontaneous, more respectful. It would be desirable for this passage to push us to leave hatred behind, racism, speciesism, our old ideas and lighten our hearts, our minds. But I'm not sure that it will go like this and that we will be able to learn from this dramatic period. Even in art I imagine that everything will have to be rethought, I believe we will move towards a natural abandonment of overabundance by both artists and users, to get closer to a more essential and profound way of relationships and proposals, aimed at a renewed and necessary synthesis.
When all this is over: one thing to do and one never to do again.
When all this ends I would like to go swimming, something I miss very much. And then I would like to take a walk by the sea and a walk in the mountains, to see that nature has continued undisturbed in recent months and, without us, he did it in the most brilliant of ways.
And I would like to no longer have the urge to change sidewalks when I pass a person.
Silvia Camporesi (Forlì, 1973). Graduated in philosophy, through the languages of photography and video he constructs stories that draw inspiration from myth, from literature, from religions and real life. In recent years his research has been dedicated to the Italian landscape. From 2004 holds exhibitions in Italy and abroad.
In 2007 won the Celeste Prize for photography; it is between the Talent Prize finalists in 2008 and the Terna Award in 2010; won the Francesco Fabbri prize for photography in 2013, the Rotary Artefiera award 2015, and the BNL Award 2016. He has published five books: The Third Venice (Trolley, 2012); Journey to Armenia (People of Photography notebooks, 2014), Atlas of Italy (Peliti Associati, 2015), The world is everything that happens (Danilo Montanari Publisher, 2019) and Double look (Contrast Books, 2019). He combines artistic activity with teaching. His works are present in public and private collections. The latest project he is working on is titled The submerged country. IS represented by the Sara Zanin Z2O Gallery. www.silviacamporesi.it