Valentina Murabito | Photographic Works 2017 - today
Valentina Murabito | Photographic Works 2017 - today
In recent years, Valentina Murabito has been concerned with the consequences of urbanization. She photographed the dwindling world of Sicilian shepherds who still keep their thousands of animals traditionally, grazing them over Mount Etna and milking them by hand. In wildlife preserves, she photographed species such as bison and Barbary macaques, whose habitat has been largely destroyed. She then manipulates her images in the darkroom, often printing them onto road construction materials such as steel or concrete, working them with bitumen (asphalt). The result will be a bestiary of analog photographs. The project is supported by the Alexander Tutsek Foundation. Her aesthetic is archaic, often frontal, monochromatic, removed from reality. Their motifs are reminiscent of Paleolithic cave paintings, which had a magical function, they were supposed to materialize the prey in reality. The hunters believed in this and caught the prey - by the power of the images. Suzan Kizilirmak, M.A. Art and Literature, 2020
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