About This Project

Pierluigi Ciambra

Tales from nowhere is a modern visual fairy tale, an invitation to embark on a powerful journey of insight into the inner places of the artist who faces the complexities of a difficult period resulting from burn-out syndrome by searching for a magical version of reality. The creative act that results in photography becomes an outlet, a cure and a refuge to counter everyday life, a means of finding oneself, exploring the most hidden emotions and revealing one’s point of view on the world. Through a narrative reminiscent of the Wunderkammer, the photographer searches for traces of magic in reality, delicately surreal scenes that visually evoke extraordinary landscapes and characters. The camera is the ideal means for capturing moments that no one sees, recalling magical memories and describing a world of forgotten dreams. Our existence is made up of subtle feelings, of moments that we hardly notice, that slip through our fingers and which could give a more intense meaning to life itself, making it more magical, unexpected and non-trivial. To survive the monotony of the everyday gaze, we need to wander, to lose ourselves in the world, to search for small spatial/temporal interconnections, cracks in the everyday life that highlight the days that pass by indifferently. These cracks in the ordinary gaze decontextualize reality and, linked together, form unexpected and wonderful worlds.

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