Journey to Armenia

Silvia Camporesi
Silvia Camporesi, 2014
165x200 mm

Publisher: Polyorama.

Dimensions: 165 x 200 mm

Pages: 84
€20

The starting point  of this project is the trip to Armenia made by the Russian writer Osip Mandelstam in 1930. Silvia Camporesi retraced the traces of that journey in search of the sacred places, atmospheres and landscapes that have fascinated the Russian writer. She intervenes on all the images of the project with processes of modification, addition or subtraction of elements, mutation of the proportions of subject and background, in order to make these places further detached from reality, suspended: places always in 



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