Photo Esplanade – Jessica Wolfelsperger
Saga
For its 4th edition, Photo Esplanade is inviting Jessica Wolfelsperger to present her Saga project. Created during a residency in Val Verzasca, the serie of images invokes the spellbinding beauty of the famous Ticino valley and the myths that still haunt it today.
Staying for two months in the village of Sonogno, in a small stone house on the banks of a river, the artist from Basel immersed herself in nature in search of traces of local legends as well as those developed by the utopian pioneers of Monte Verità at the beginning of the 20th century. Through her lens, the photographer has captured a timeless atmosphere in which the place - the village, the forest, the mountains and the waterways - and its inhabitants gradually embody a new mythology filled with mysticism.
Using a variety of photographic techniques (silver, Polaroids, digital), the artist tells her own Saga.
Exhibition curator,
Filipe Dos Santos
Opening
Friday 29th March, at 6.30 pm
Everyone should spend time in nature, it's detoxifying. In the forest our attention is not diverted by houses, lights and the omnipresent Wi-Fi. At night, when everything is really dark, we realise the importance and power of nature, and we respect it.
Jessica Wolfelsperger
Jessica Wolfelsperger is a Swiss photographer, born in 1979. She studied photography at BTK - University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, where she lives and works. Her award-winning work celebrates the small mysteries, dreamlike and unfathomable, that open up within us and break down the present.
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