"Beigua Natural Park"
Studies on a liminal condition.
"And so you will tell the stones the stories of the trees, and the trees the stories of the stones.
Thus you will know the stories of men, who carved the earth in honor of that terrible god, to whom they dedicated the name of the highest mountain."
Started in 2023, the project gathers a selection of images of the Beigua Park, the largest protected area in Liguria.
The work investigates the park as a threshold place, a quality inscribed in the territory itself, which faces the sea and opens toward the inland.
The double nature of Beigua, a resurfaced seabed and today a wooded mountain, is reflected in the human presence that has inhabited it over the millennia, testified by a network of rock engravings and by the link to an ancient pre Roman deity (Bego or Baigorix) whose meaning remains open to interpretation.
The work enters into dialogue with the animistic vision of these ancient peoples, rendering it through a contemporary gaze mediated by suggestion.
There are no shots of the engravings themselves, only of the places that host them, suggesting that the sacred here resides in the territory more than in the single sign.
Through natural details, the photographs render that sensation of crossing and liminality that permeates the entire area.
"A silence broken
by the seeping of the earth,
which makes itself new
every winter
now sodden
now white
now green and yellow
dry
like the sound
of when it breaks
only to sing at last
pregnant
by the spring sun."
"I keep nothing
of when
I watched the mists
migrate.
In the bath
of damp thoughts
I reach out my hand,
but every finger
is illusion."
"On the slopes,
an echo
a presence
the valley.
Bare
I turn toward that clearing.
There are no shelters
in the Ligurian woods."
"A path
leads
among bare forms a
nd sacred beasts,
leads
where man
is but an idea.
Placid,
the stones watch me,
it is typical of these woods."
