This is an unpublished project premiered today on C41 Magazine.
Natale Orsini (1993) is an Italian visual artist based in Latina. He studied Photography at the ISIA Institute in Urbino in Italy. All his images born from a documentary-anthropological approach to photography, to change their body and their communicative status, in order to reach an extra-temporal dimension; calling the observer to think about the multiple layers of meaning that the photographic medium allows articulating.
His works appear as surreal images in which fiction and reality meet, meanings shift and past and present mix together.
About ‘At Panther Step’ – words by Michela Coslovich:
Like Ulysses, now we are called to travel on a journey in the Agro Pontino region (Lazio, Italy) through scenarios that create connections between present and past. The figure of Circe is an ambivalent portrait: a hostile sorceress who transforms her men into animals but also a welcoming goddess only for those who are able to understand her true identity. She is the perfect symbol of the bi-frontism of hospitality, she can be malignant or benign depending on the representation we decide to attribute to her. Like her, the impervious nature shows us the way to places that do not allow us to be traveled, incomprehensible spaces that are foreign to our eyes. The images are far away from a real condition, becoming without space and time, creating a new imaginary detached from any geographical boundary. They are Archetypal Images, visual representations present in the same way into the unconscious of all men. Through visual analysis, the environment allows being analyzed in its most intimate details, in all its physical nuances, and in the people who populate it. The terrestrial mixes with the supernatural and we become unable to distinguish known atmospheres from those that are unknown to us. Visually, we take a slow walk that allows us to see reality as the representations of an abstract environment, but with objects and subjects that inhabit it and make it concrete and alive.
