FLOW is a photographic series concerning the Riva project, promoted by the Municipality of Pontassieve and the Region of Tuscany in collaboration with the Studio Marangoni Foundation and the Riverboom collective.
Here the artist appropriates the archival photos of the town council of Pontassieve (14 km east of Florence) that depict the tragic events of 1966.
When digging among the images of the flood, it is difficult to forget what is imprinted in the collective memory relating to the drama of the flood that Florence experienced. It captured the attention of the world, for the destruction affected not just the artistic and cultural heritage of the city, but world heritage as well. Just like Florence, the suburbs of Pontassieve were also devastated, not as significance perhaps, but not to be overlooked.
The FLOW title symbolizes the flow of water, the river that destroys, carries away, devastates and at the same time leaves room for the new.
The time period covered by the images is the period from 1966 to the present day.
The artist, in fact, digitally re-works old photographs creating digital and temporal superimpositions, where the old and the new are mixed, creating a comparison between the past and the present.
It is a look at reality in an attempt to go beyond the space-time dimension, which is eliminated but remains imprinted in those photographs and is fixed in the memory of each individual.