inCf issue 4 INTERVIEW
@ricacerbarano in conversazione con
@alecio.untitled
Rica Cerbarano: The natural element often crops up in your work, in the form of rocks, minerals, leaves or more. These are mainly details, some extrapolated from real life, some staged as still life, and others are archive material. Where did this fascination with the forms of nature come from?
Alecio Ferrari: At a certain point in my life, in a very spontaneous way, nature began to gravitate around me. And I began to gravitate around nature. In 2018, working on the Port Talbot project, I was investigating the disastrous effects of the UK’s largest steelworks and its interference on the economic, social, and ecological structure of the English town of the same name. In 2022, with the Slices of Dust study, I delved into the inextricable relationship between nature and culture within the world of minerals and gemstones, carrying out research that brought together historical archives and material obtained from museums and private collections, including reports of geological natural spaces. In the meantime, between projects, the collection of images of natural settings continued to broaden, expand, and pervade every hard drive and even my imagination. By the time I was called upon to develop the fourth issue of inCf magazine, the direction was already clear: the natural themes resonated with me more than any other research and speculation.
Leggi l’intervista completa di Rica Cerbarano ad Alecio Ferrari nel quarto numero di inCf magazine.
Photo: Karl Blossfeldt, Plantstudie, 1928
