The sound of stars
Xiaoxiao Xu took these photos in October 2014, while she was staying in Ravenna. They were almost all taken in the Piallassa and in the chemical hub located between the city and the sea, Xu was immediately impressed by the strong contrast between the natural landscape of the pinewood and brackish areas, with their typical self-built fishing huts, and the wide industrial area comprising of Hamon cooling-towers – symbolising the peak of the city’s economic development –, which have now been abandoned for decades.
According to traditional Chinese philosophy, the Yin and Yang principles are the paradigms of every duality, and complementary contraries that don’t exclude each other: they aren’t perceived as irreducible, but rather as alternatives, as stages that can be passed through by means of subtle transitions. Starting from this assumption, she has noticed a sort of circularity, a deep balance in the elements of the landscape.
Nature and industry, forms and undifferentiated things, sound and silence are but two sides of the same coin – a reality that, before any attempt of explanation, must be carefully observed and listened to.
Xiaoxiao Xu took these photos in October 2014, while she was staying in Ravenna. They were almost all taken in the Piallassa and in the chemical hub located between the city and the sea, Xu was immediately impressed by the strong contrast between the natural landscape of the pinewood and brackish areas, with their typical self-built fishing huts, and the wide industrial area comprising of Hamon cooling-towers – symbolising the peak of the city’s economic development –, which have now been abandoned for decades.
According to traditional Chinese philosophy, the Yin and Yang principles are the paradigms of every duality, and complementary contraries that don’t exclude each other: they aren’t perceived as irreducible, but rather as alternatives, as stages that can be passed through by means of subtle transitions. Starting from this assumption, she has noticed a sort of circularity, a deep balance in the elements of the landscape.
Nature and industry, forms and undifferentiated things, sound and silence are but two sides of the same coin – a reality that, before any attempt of explanation, must be carefully observed and listened to.
