Luca Marianaccio

404 NOT FOUND

“The city as outcome of a creative act or of a construction could be the ultimate result of a metaphysics where a person ‘encounters nothing but themselves’ and, in this encounter, begins to be afraid. Technology becomes mirror and shield at the same time, becomes the supposedly unifying soul. Programmes that anticipate collective needs and create new, deceptively wide perspectives influence at the same time our impressions of others, how we take fundamental decisions and create memories on inhabiting. We witness therefore, simultaneously, the homologation of desires and aesthetics, and thus of the crumbling of community and the confinement within private property.
The return to the individual, the cave and the primordial are not then understood in a historical dystopian sense, but as a consequence of a failed encounter on a human level. Our present was somebody’s future, our today was a tomorrow – close or distant – of someone who is no longer with us; in this manner, a lasting bond between matter and time are created. 404 Not Found is an account in images of scenarios that we might consider negatively, but that in the future could be normality: in this sense, our reproach to the future could be a hypocritical forgetting of the present.”

Project presented in Giovane Fotografia Italiana #07 | ROPES/CORDE