Courtesy of Manifesta7 and Francesca Minini, Milan
Camera - Philip Fleischer
Music - Andy Moss
Special Thanks to Francesco Rovaldi and Wolf von Kries

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A beautiful postcard.

According to legend, one can still hear church bells ringing during the winter.

Quite nostalgic, the fragile beauty of a landscape, the mountains disappearing behind the clouds.
I see the old decayed bricks, and the broken clocks.

Disappearance – Change

There were more changes in the last century than in the previous one thousand years, and this century will probably see changes exponentially larger than the last.
Present technologies have modified the environment and our behavior. Future ones will even alter human beings themselves—not just how we live.

Having sequenced the human genome, as well as that of other species - now we are able to modify life according to our needs.
Some want to solve the food crisis with it. Some want to engineer synthetic organisms – to solve energy and climate emergencies. Some see in it a new field for investment. Many others are afraid of the unpredictable consequences.

At the change of an era, it is always so that if one stays anchored to old thinking, one loses the game.

These thoughts come to my mind looking at this artificial intervention into the landscape.
dreams – visionary thoughts – utopia – excitement – wonder – confusion – prejudice – fear – controversial thoughts.

My imagination bursts into fluorescence and suddenly leaves me in darkness.

It is an old story, but it still astonishes me how important breakthroughs can alter the perception of things and open up new ways of looking at the present and the future -by changing even the way one feels about and remembers the past.

The old perception doesn’t work any more; sometimes it even erases one’s sense of belonging.