finite | infinity | infinito | finito

finite| infinity mongolia 2012 Mongolia: an inner journey, mainly. A whole planet of spatial immensity and apparent time suspension, in which everything elicits a personal inner look. A land ruled by elementary, atmospheric, unstoppable forces. The power of elements is such that man has to muster all his energies in order to harmonize with the environment, without trying to fight its extremes. A land of threshold between those extremes, of co-existence of opposites, of delicate equilibrium between eras, continents, mental and cultural worlds. Complementarity without conflict. Old gestures sum up and are repeated, while alternating light and dark rule this world. Everything co-exists, immutably, in an uninterrupted expansion of time and space: infinity and man, embodying the finite; history and the present; Asia and Europe; East and West; buddhist and shamanic Mongolia and the Russian legacy; nomadism and sedentariness (the latter motivated by the dzud, exceptionally severe winters, and desertification); isolation and forced promiscuity inside the gers (Mongolian yurts). August 2012: I've travelled through Mongolia and the Gobi Desert, 2,500km off road, watching horizons get farther and farther. From the very first days, these lines by Emily Dickinson have accompanied me: "There is a solitude of space A solitude of sea A solitude of death, but these Society shall be Compared with that profounder site That polar privacy A soul admitted to itself – Finite Infinity." A new concept of void, of infinity, of horizon. An inner journey, precisely. finite | infinity | infinito | finito Photographs by Claudia Ioan FACEPHOTONEWS 2015 Festival della Fotografia contemporanea (Festival of Contemporary Photography) 19th-21st June 2015 Palazzo ex-Pretura Via Garibaldi 18 Sassoferrato (AN) 19th June-12th July 2015