SUPERFICI INSTABILI
There is a picture of myself as a child that often comes to my mind: it’s me on my desk, reading the very first rudiments of geology that the teacher wanted us to memorize perfectly. Plate tectonics, continental drift, volcanoes… I can remember the precise words if I concentrate just a little. I was only 10 years old, but I already loved that subject: the idea of something emerging from the center of the earth to its surface, bringing destruction and fear, but also new forms and strange landscapes, was fascinating.
© Luana Rigolli
© Luana Rigolli
© Luana Rigolli
The first volcano I have ever seen is the Mount Etna in Sicily: I fell in love with that kind of scenario and I am still loving it when, for example, I fly to Lanzarote. I remember the first time I went there: the transfer from the airport to the little village of Famara is a winding road through a land of grey lava and black ash. I could only see the outline of volcanoes, no trees, nothing else: something completely different from the Italian landscape I was used to. I re-fell in love with it.
© Luana Rigolli
© Luana Rigolli
Here I feel a strange energy that distorts my usual rhythm. I want to believe that the volcanoes destabilize me because they open a direct line that runs from the magma to the surface. I can’t tell how many times I came here, in this expanse of nothing, enchanted by odd forms and discouraging lands… I need to portray them with my camera. Eventually I know that this landscape, as I see it in my pictures, could change forever for the sudden eruption of a volcano. This is scaring and fascinating at once.
© Luana Rigolli
© Luana Rigolli
© Luana Rigolli
BIO
I’m from Italy and I’m 34 years old. The studies in civil engineering lead me to prefer subjects of architecture and human interaction with the landscape. I am founding member of the “Dieci x Dieci Contemporary Photography Festival” since 2015, in Gonzaga (Italy). In 2017 I’ve studied photojournalism at Fondazione Marangoni in Florence, with Collettivo Terraproject. In 2015 I have been selected for the photography residence held by Harry Gruyaert (Magnum) organized by CAMERA Italian Centre for Photography.