The series of shots taken by photographer Domenico Matera goes straight to the heart of a life’s memories. A native of Basilicata, he chooses the Lucanian Calanchi and its network of cracks in the clay to reconnect with a sphere of memories.
Matera wants to reconnect with an idea of landscape that creates continuity in memories, because it brings us back to a condition of essentiality that is that of memory, untainted by the present and our eyes on the contemporary.
The bare landscape of the photographs is a metaphor for this search for essentiality, also favoured by the choice of white monochrome, a fog over memories that unifies and envelops them.
The landscapes and horizons thus become more and more distant, a borderline can barely be seen, while the alternation of wide shots and close-ups confuses the ideas of what is micro and macro. A world to be reconstructed through memory.