The future is no longer what it used to be

"The future is no longer what it used to be" is a journal of a disoriented sailing, a map that is drawing itself while I am searching for new cardinal points to signify the world that is happening.

The world has been unhinged. The horizon has been pushed to the extreme point where a clear vision is not allowed. Everything is shapeless, lost, in need to be redefined. Things suddenly changed and are going to change again. Gestures, large and small habits, the way we work, we move, we love. The way we touch and stay close. We should rethink a whole new way of living. We need a narration, we need words and ideas to tell and image a future, the creative vision of what it is going to be. In my works I always try to tell stories, to seek for a plot - most of the times they are barely visible or undercurrent - to give meaning to what happens. I am looking for an atlas, a sentimental geography that juxtaposes suggestions and facts. Therefore I travelled through Umbria, my homeland. Finding out what it is transforming and how that happens, inspecting mistakes, short circuits and solutions, portraying faces or what remains of them - a horizon split in half - reporting what people feel by giving a shape to their words through details and circumstances, through metaphors. Symbols that recall, signs that whisper. Ancient statues, empty theaters, museums where the works are left alone, out of gazes, landscapes, laconics details, ruins of a passage. "The future is no longer what it used to be" is a journal of a disoriented sailing, a map that is drawing itself while I am searching for new cardinal points to signify the world that is happening.