Prologue:
Everything dies yet, nothing truly dies.
Of every thing, a memory still exists
And upon everything is cast a wait for a metamorphosis.
But during these long, unbearably long, intervals
the wound of the moment deepens.
Everything has been, and is not yet
and the arid earth becomes a space of conflict
between the alive and the inanimate,
between life and its double.
These are abandoned places, scattered all over the world,
marked by our own identity.
Truth reveals itself in fragments
and Nature, freed from another death,
nurtures beings which have become consciousness.
Metal, waves, cement, carcasses…
they flow along pictures of all times,
rebellious to any human laws and patterns
Sparks that capture the lost gazes
of those who don’t know, and those who cannot forget.
Torn calendars use time
and the eye becomes a presence,
it multiplies subtle details,
articulates and demolishes history
to imprison the first, indivisible impulse:
light that strikes to wipe away,
and so from chaos, form is revealed.
Time Place Metal
A look investigating a place - the coastal area of Naples - in a given lenght of time, from the shutdown of a steel mill to the environmental re-valuation of the site.
A look that overcomes the limits of space and time, and arrives at a “suspended land” in which linear history reaches an absolute, cyclic dimension, where time, place, and metal become symbols of a universal condition.
This is a context which has slowly turned into an isolated microcosm, asunder from the city, anomalous suburbs made of landscape, houses, disused mills. Empty areas, eroded by time, allow men to form, by contrast, an idea of the city they live in, because it is in these anachronistic fissures that memory glides, finds its own symbols, projects and internalizes its wounds.
Credits
images / concept _ Giampiero Assumma
text _ Giovanna Assumma
voice _ Ian Pons Jewell
edit / sound _ Gaia Borretti
sound mix _ Tim Harrison
Festivals
Yangon Photo Festival, 2012
Rencontres Cinématographiques de Cerbère, 2011
Les Rencontres d'Arles, 2011
Les Nuit Photographiques, Paris 2011
