Sergio Castiglione

The urban profile of a city is like its DNA, a unique means of visual identification, an image so strong and iconic that it will remain in our memory forever. Each city is a mixture of architectural elements shaped over several centuries, which, combined with the peculiar topography of each site, tell the stories of its inhabitants, of how they have lived, worked or played.
In the segMOments project, I propose a reflection on the city and the current ways of contemplating it; It is a contemporary portrait of the city that does not show a static profile but rather acquires dynamism and allows us to see a different picture from second to second.
Space and time are formal axes of this photographic production, to which I include an architectural and urban perspective, questioning myself and also the viewer about how a city should be observed, what would be the virtuous way? Under the sunlight? A night vision? Or through all of them? I work as an archaeologist of time studying the moments of the day, valuing them as aesthetic elements that could lead to a refinement of the power of observation under the idea that a city cannot be fully seen if it is separated from the passage of time.
The fragmentation of the horizons dividing the images with vertical cuts generates a different way of looking that contains the visual presence of time in constant evolution; a concretized temporary utopia, projected as a photographic installation, which invites the viewer to reflect and actively contemplate. This thoughtful look at the communion of urban architecture and the environment traversed by time establishes a dialogue between man and his ecosystem, a habitat of integration that deserves to be contemplated.