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Biblioteca Lúcio Craveiro da Silva
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It tells the process of adaptation of man and nature in a place and a slow temporal space with a series of readable intervals such as breaklines, elements of change. Starting from the genetic traces of the Sardinian people and from the places that are connoted in the collective imagination as identitaries, we want to read through photographs a rhythmically varied temporal process that tells of the continuous forms of adaptation of man to the inevitable transformations of the territory.
Among the first forms of adaptation to the place is the transition from the nomadic to the sedentary condition of life, which implies the need to leave traces, recognizable signs on the place, which is tamed. The constant within these processes of adaptation is the rock, a symbol of strength, resistance, hostility but at the same time a symbol of home, of space of aggregation as in places of worship. It is an element that can be easily approached to the soul of the Sardinian people and their faithful flock that becomes a necessary source of sustenance and companion of travel; a stubborn people who within the island’s condition lived in hostile nature almost like inside a fortress. The photographic research digs among the often stereotypical elements that characterize the fundamental characteristics of the people and collects their fundamental notions, through a direct association between the place and its use. The places become great containers of information, traditions, mythological stories imprinted in the rock and partly yet to be discovered. The process of adaptation is a reason for survival, a symbol of targeted choices of life in total symbiosis with the territory, a symbol of stubbornness in persevering the will to live under certain conditions, often dictated by nature. All decisions have a price to pay and lead to precise consequences, almost as in a continuous struggle for balance.
Cédric Dasesson
Cédric Dasesson (born 1984) is an Italian photographer who develops a predilection for the study of the territory and the contemporary landscape. He uses photography as a means of research, identifying a path of analysis and reading of space, reading the changes in the territory and sensitizing the places he observes. His works have been part of international exhibitions and exhibitions, being part of collections of institutions such as MUFOCO (Museo Italiano della Fotografia Contemporanea), MIBACT (Ministero dei Beni Culturali e del Turismo), Museo Nivola, Università di Cagliari , Pisa Biennale, Falía*, Biennale dello Stretto, as well as private ones. He combines the practice of photography with teaching, from 2016 to 2018 at IED (European Institute of Design) and in 2022 at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Cagliari. With his vision of the sea, touching the coastal landscape by levels: underwater, from land and from the sky, he wins the notice of the Banco di Sardegna Foundation, publishing his first autobiographical book. Later he developed together with Sardarch and the Conservatorie delle Coste (Sardinia Region) a photographic project on the mapping of the coastal territory, exposing the work at the Architecture Festival of Cagliari. Another topic of great interest is the analysis of urban and rural territory. In 2019 he is one of the ten photographers selected by MUFOCO and mibact for the development of the Atlas of Contemporary Architecture with whom he publishes “10 trips in contemporary architecture” and exhibits at the Triennale of Milan and the Museo Nazionale Romano , Palazzo Altemps in Rome. Realizes projects of identification of the built through the artist’s residence Falia*. Works integrated with the urban plans of the various Sardinian municipalities with Sardarch that describes the historical characteristics and those of the main actors, the population; through different photographic campaigns. Observe the territory realized with Architetture Liberate 3.0 together with the University of Cagliari. His main publications include Level (AB Factory + Fondazione Banco di Sardegna), Di notte il mare non dorme mai (DUNP) and Costellazioni (Falía*), Oltreterra (Psicografici editore).
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