Teach me how you designed these creatures

The project explores the different narratives around Sardinia's history, Italian island.

The project explores the disparate theories and contradictions around the Nuragic civilization’s historiography. This prehistoric Sardinian population existed between 2.300 BC - 200 AD and played a central role in shaping the contemporary identity of the Italian island. The lack of indisputable information about them and the abundance of unresolved hypotheses made room for several myths to emerge, real traps in the historical narrative which paved the way to bizarre and absurd theories. Oral histories play a central part in the project and often they go against the narratives presented by museums and historians. 

It is precisely within this mysteriousness and heterogeneity of Sardinian historiography that my project is taking shape. Nuragic statuettes, megalithic architectures and unidentified objects are some of the protagonists of this story. 

© Stefano Conti - Installation view, Chippendale Studio, Milano, 2023.
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Installation view, Chippendale Studio, Milano, 2023.

© Stefano Conti - Silver gelatin print, chromogenic print, aluminium, magnets.
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Silver gelatin print, chromogenic print, aluminium, magnets.

© Stefano Conti - Chromogenic print, chromed copper tube, stolen plastic knobs, magnets.
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Chromogenic print, chromed copper tube, stolen plastic knobs, magnets.

© Stefano Conti - Giclée prints, plexiglass, aluminium, magnets.
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Giclée prints, plexiglass, aluminium, magnets.

© Stefano Conti - Silver gelatin print, chromogenic print, laser print, aluminium frame, museum glass, plexiglass, magnets.
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Silver gelatin print, chromogenic print, laser print, aluminium frame, museum glass, plexiglass, magnets.

Teach me how you designed these creatures by Stefano Conti

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