Susanna De Vido

Quando torneremo a guardare le stelle

As animals steadily disappear from their environments, they continue to inhabit the human imagination in the form of myths, traces, and representations. Within museum displays and taxidermy workshops, holy spaces and family albums, long-standing narratives reveal the complex and often dualistic relationships humans have built with otherness and the living world.

Quando torneremo a guardare le stelle [When We Look at the Stars Again] stems from a reflection on human–nonhuman relationships in Western patriarchal societies in the age of the Anthropocene—relationships shaped by logics of separation, control, extraction, and appropriation of life. Through a range of forms including self-portraiture, staged images, collage, and patchwork, the project generates alternative imaginaries in which dreamlike elements, humor, and the absurd become potential sites of resistance. By engaging her own body through performative gestures, Susanna unsettles established visual codes and representations, exposing the underlying structures of power and domination that have, over centuries, become embedded in the Western collective imagination.

Quando torneremo a guardare le stelle is an invitation to shift perspective, to think from elsewhere. It calls for new ways of relating, coexisting, and caring—between human and nonhuman, between animal bodies and female bodies—in an effort to imagine renewed alliances among companion species.

Project in the frame of Giovane Fotografia Italiana #13 – VOCI / VOICES

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BIO

Susanna De Vido