2023-11-08 08:32:55
(Time.news) – The exhibition of. will be extended until January 28, 2024 Sebastiao Salgado‘Amazonia’, there Milan Steam Factory edited by Lélia Wanick Salgado, travel and life companion of the great photographer. It was the consistently high numbers of admissions that forced this choice on the Milanese multifunctional artistic and cultural centre.
After the ‘Genesis’ project, dedicated to the most remote regions of the planet to witness their majestic beauty, Salgado undertook a new series of journeys to capture the incredible richness and variety of the Brazilian Amazon forest, with the habits and customs of the populations living there they live. To achieve this, the master lived in their villages for weeks, sharing their daily lives and photographing the indigenous populations he encountered along the way.
A complex project, which lasted seven years, during which he photographed vegetation, rivers, mountains and people. “I don’t know if Salgado is more of a great artist or a benefactor of humanity”, said the Mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala when introducing the Brazilian master during the inauguration of the exhibition on May 12th. “In the Amazon – he added – he carried out a forestry work from which we all must learn and has given an immense gift to humanity”:
For Sebastiao Salgado, these images testify to what still survives despite the progressive disappearance of the largest tropical rainforest on the planet: “my desire, with all my heart, with all my energy, with all the passion that What’s inside me – underlined the Brazilian photographer – is that in 50 years this exhibition will not resemble a testimony of a lost world”. “The Amazon must continue to live and always have its indigenous inhabitants in its heart.”
Con over 200 photographs on display‘Amazonia’ proposes to totally immerse yourself in the Amazonian reality but also to raise awareness among visitors.
The exhibition develops around two themes. The first is made up of landscape photography, with sections ranging from aerial views of the forest to flying rivers: the Amazon rainforest is the only place in the world where the air humidity system does not depend on the evaporation of the oceans. Each tree disperses hundreds of liters of water a day, creating the singular phenomenon of “flying rivers”, air currents full of humidity that originate from the transpiration of plants in rainforests and are even larger than the Amazon River.
The exhibition continues with the section on forestfinally with the park Anavilhanas – Islands in the Current, the archipelago that has between 350 and 450 islands of every imaginable shape that emerge from the dark waters of the Rio Negro. The second body of images is dedicated to different indigenous populations encountered on its long journey while at the center of the exhibition itinerary there are three chambers that represent the indigenous houses called “ocas”.
The photographs of the populations of the Amazon, around a hundred in all, are interspersed with iVideo interviews of indigenous leaders. The exhibition includes portraits of ben exponents 12 indigenous groups that Salgado immortalized in his numerous travels.
As explained by Salgado himself, “this exhibition aims to recreate the environment of the Amazon forest, which I lived, documented and photographed for seven years, giving the visitor the opportunity to identify with and immerse themselves both in its lush vegetation and in the daily life of the native populations” .
On the occasion of the inauguration, the maestro made no secret that he was “particularly happy” to return to exhibit in Milan. “A city – he had specified – which has always given a lot of space to my work, offering citizens the opportunity to see images that bear witness to what remains of this immense heritage which risks disappearing”.
Salgado, always a committed artist and photographer, firmly believes that it is up to human beings to do their part to help protect the Amazonian heritage, “so that life and nature can escape further episodes of destruction and depredation”.
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