Jean-Marc Caimi & Valentina Piccinni

Umana Natura
Cal Garbat, S3

There are connections between all forms of life that allow us to perceive the synchrony and diachrony between the life paths of the animal, human, and plant worlds. There are timelines that, although they follow cycles of different durations, come together in the dimension of the present. While the increasingly evident consequences of climate change are altering the balance of the planet, we travel to a still pristine region and witness the incredible natural resilience. This research triggers a short circuit between the seemingly perpetual existence of ancestral nature and the transience of human beings, inviting reflection on the perception of change, birth, mutation, and death.

Caimi & Piccinni have constructed their visual research in the form of diptychs, to invite the observer to question the connections and contrasts between the microcosms that inhabit nature, focusing on a unique territory in Europe, Umbria, known for its biodiversity and specific climatic conditions. A hard and pure land that reveals pristine forests and centenarian human beings, where time seems to have its deepest roots and it is possible to perceive the original balance now rare. Where “nothing comes from nothing” and the echoes of ancestors still resonate.

Focusing on simple existences and documenting these microcosms is an instrument to create awareness of a different way of conceiving growth and development, opening the way to reflection on new perspectives for building the future.