Surviving Disappointment, Stefania Carlotti

“I am walking down the street.
Everything looks frozen.
I walk fast to avoid the boredom of the landscape.
A sense of nausea comes up. The kind of nausea from having walked through the same street millions of times.”

Surviving Disappointment by Stefania Carlotti showcases a collection of analog pictures captured in the suburbs of French Switzerland. Each image reveals fragments of the pathway connecting the artist's home to her studio. Accompanying captions on each page tally the number of steps required to reach the destination, while a stream of contemplative thoughts traces a narrative suspended between real desolation and imaginative realms. Within this grey area, iconic characters from Western cinematography emerge, immersing themselves in an alienating landscape that transforms the artist's photographs into the authentic backdrop of a surreal film.

Published by Fermacampione
Softcover 
32 pages
210 × 297 mm