Part of the series "Big Sky hunting". About the series: "The starting point of the series begins with several photographs taken by Sinigaglia at the OCA Observatory on the Plateau de Calern in France: the research station’s interiors are immersed in extremely violent light, increasing its theatrical effect. Intensified shadows and enveloping black evoke the unknown. Images of heterogeneous nature alternate: landscape-esque shots, historical maps and objects that in appearance trigger relationships to ancient books and notebooks that harbor hypothetical record-keeping unbeknownst to us. A series of imperfect spectrographic plates and lacerated film underline the deceptive nature of images that are incapable of fulfilling their original function as documentary media. Hence, we violate the boundaries of “error” described by Clément Chéroux when he states that “common belief equates a photographic mistake to an alteration of the mimetic power of the medium”, thereby revealing an alleged crisis of representation within the definition of photography because “when photography looses its mimetic nature, it is no longer photography. The less mimetic a photograph, the more it fails”. Contrary to this practical concept of the medium addressed by the French historian, Sinigaglia maintains that emphasizing the dysfunctional qualities of photography is an indispensable vehicle to broadening our perspective and to searching for territories that go beyond a description of what is tangible." - Carlo Sala

Sitography:

SALA, Carlo, "The imaginary cosmos in Big Sky Hunting. Notes on the limits of vision", www.landscapestories.net,
landscapestories.net/en/archive/2015/outer-spaces/projects/alberto-sinigaglia