Thinking Like a Mountain
Art, Territories, Community
The Project
08. With the places: the middle mountains
Every morning my gaze leaves the line of Linzone, climbs the Albenza and Roncola, and then slides along the entire crest of the Val Brembana, which wraps the lower villages at the foot of the valley as if in an embrace. Depending on the time of day and the seasons, the mountains are clad in hues that are never quite the same: from the soft, rosy bronze of dawn to the intense green shade that merges with the shadows of the forests. Each light cast seems to tell a different story, to take a deep breath. As I observe them, I think about how I inhabit (and work in) that living dimension of the “middle mountains”: that area of passage, encounter and ancient stories described by Mauro Varotto, professor of Geography and Cultural Geography at the University of Padua, in his essay Montagne di mezzo. Una nuova geografia (Middle Mountains. A New Geography).
Valentina Gervasoni
In Brief
07. Lì / There
I have always believed that training, researching, being an artist, is not just a matter of transmitting concrete information, images or stories. Artists must be able to testify that a THERE exists, that going THERE to verify makes sense and is worthwhile. The problem lies in identifying where that place is for each of us, and what tools we need to get there and talk about it.
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