RAFFAELE MORABITO

Extraordinary Coincidences of Death consists in the reproduction of a series of glacier views that I’ve been collecting since 2019. The original photographs, taken between the end of the Nineteenth and the beginning of the Twentieth century, has begun a process of degradation, turning yellow and turning evanescent. The fading of these images seems to be extraordinarily synchronized with the melting of the glaciers themselves, as if photography had not cut the umbilical cord between then and today. There is a strange relationship between the things of this world that mutually influence each other beyond time and space, where past, present and future continue to intertwine, exchange and influence each other. Through my scanner I re-frozen this action of degradation as in a magical rite, restoring fixity to images and glaciers.