Gianluca Morini

A LONG JOURNEY THROUGH NOTHING NEW | Twenty-five years ago, my parents decided to leave Brazil. I was born in a land that should have welcomed me as a native but kept its distance instead. I was born in a land that relegated me to the position of the perpetual tourist, that never let me understand why I was linked to it, or how to have an active interaction with. That saudade sentiment, of something lost – that perhaps was never owned – so nuanced and inexplicable, often revealed itself while I tried to connect to my everyday life there.

Starting in 2018, I decided to cross the boundaries of my homeland, Lombardy, one of the most Northern Italian region, looking for analogies.

In an attempt to dialogue with a land that I never felt belonging to, trying to shape the involved relation with my routine, I collected the fragments of visual experience, familiar or not, that I felt could contribute to the forming of a genuine perception of reality, no longer distant and idealized, but present and in continuous change, of everything that falls within the normality of my daily and that for many, is nothing new. www.gianlucamorini.com