นิทรรศการภาพถ่าย "All Things Left Behind"
นิทรรศการภาพถ่าย "All Things Left Behind" ผลงานโดย Carolina Sandretto จัดแสดงระหว่างวันที่ 30 มกราคม - 15 มีนาคม 2563 ณ ศูนย์การค้าริเวอร์ซิตี้ : River City
All Things Left Behind
About the exhibition
Within the project ALL THINGS LEFT BEHIND photographer Carolina Sandretto takes the viewer to Cuba, Svalbard and Antarctica to explore the idea of time and it’s passing and what it signifies for the landscape of things that belong to us. Time and its passing influence objects in a visible way. Their superficies and external aspect change as well as the significance and importance of these things hold for us. They become part of a lost landscape, traces of who we were a testimony of our past life, memory of what we were by what we left behind. Our collective past reflects on the surface of the landscapes depicted, even in places where these things are still in use.In Svalbard Carolina Sandretto explores an entire mining city preserved from the eighties, where more than 3000 people used to live and work which was abandoned since URSS’s fall in the 1980’s. The inhabitants left their personal belongings, their memories and traces to constitute an eternal museum of time set in an icy landscape, as to testify their passage on hearth. These things left behind testify of their life and their stories as time is both preserving them and slowly transforming their meaning and their surface. In the Antarctic, in the past 40 years, traces of human passage have been fortunately removed and the environment protected; except for a few whaling villages along the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula where the traces of the humans are still visible. Today, as guilty exploiters, we can admire in the pristine landscapes, the ruins left by our passage. Cuba is the island where time lingers and landscapes never really change. Here Carolina Sandretto portrayed rooms full of things still in use, even if old and often broken. In a place where nothing is replaced or replaceable due to a continuous scarcity, time transforms the surface of the objects but they are recycled and reused and life is still striving in them even if time makes them appear old. Different landscapes, traces of time.
On show from 30 Jan until 30 March at Room 240 and 243. Free entry.About the artist
Carolina Sandretto is an Italian photographer with a background in both Not for profit Management and Photojournalism. Carolina explores themes such as passing of time, memory and abandonment. For her research, she works predominately with medium format analogue cameras and large format. Through traditional techniques, the photographic process becomes a mental creative process, a path whose purpose is the image intended as a story. Carolina graduated from the Università Cattolica, Milan in Political Sciences in 2006. In 2011, she obtained a MA in Management of the No Profit at Bocconi University, Milan, and in 2013 she completed the program in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at ICP-International Center of Photography in New York City. Her work has been exhibited in Italy, Mexico and the US. She was part of the XVIII EDDIE ADA M S Workshop in 2015 and in 2017 she published the book "Cines de Cuba" with Skira. Sandretto's work is present in several private collections and has appeared on different publications and news outlets such as: BOMB Magazine, Flash Art, Atlas Obscura, Vogue Italy, La Stampa, Il Manifesto, Glamour Italy and others
