Agave

Agave is a work that speaks about a love story, from the days immediately following its birth until the moment of its end.

Agave is a work that speaks about a love story, from the days immediately following its birth until the moment of its end.

Through images with a dry and direct aesthetic, the author shows us his love story that becomes a generational representation. The photographs tell us about primary and ancient emotions: joy, pain, boredom, serenity, anger, melancholy... directly and without any mediation, we can enjoy their immediacy. These images take us into a personal and unknown yet vaguely familiar world.

This is one of Agave's main strengths: the ability to address anyone, to offer itself to the free interpretation of every gaze and every observer. The images are open, the message is not univocal: as the interiority of the spectators varies, the perception of the path changes along with them.

The journalistic aspect of the narrated and represented story is therefore replaced by a lyrical and profound subtext, made of mutual recognition of emotions; it then becomes a dialogue that is established between the memory and interiority of the spectator and that of the photographer.

An intimate testimony of fragments of life and also a hymn to the importance of those things that, in a society obsessed with performance and exceptionality, constitute a large part of our existence while passing through it with discretion, gestures that mark the days like a white noise that leaves no traces.

Agave reminds us that life is made up above all of these little things, and we would do well to keep this in mind, to give them the right attention because attention, as the philosopher Simone Weil wrote, is the first form of love.