Sedimenta
Anna Positano
Sedimenta visually narrates the fragmented landscape of Mt. Krn. A hundred years ago, this accumulation of stratas saw one of the bloodiest battles fought in World War One, the Battle of Caporetto, during which the bombing severely damaged the mountain itself. Today, the rocks illustrate the witnessed trauma and present a petrified text of human history, a topographic testament to the embedded anthropogenic forces. Each component of the mountain range is fragments that carry out the meaning of the whole; by compressing and isolating these elements, the photographed layers build a genealogy of the recent past.
Anna Positano is a photographer and an artist, with a background in architecture. She graduated in Architecture at the University of Genoa (2008), then obtained her MA in Photography at the London College of Communication (2010). Her work encompasses the reciprocal in uence between landscape and society and explores everyday places that play a key-role in narrating people’s lives. She uses photography, video installations, cartography, writing and participated practices to interpret the complexity of man-altered landscapes.
In addition to her art and research, she works on commission for architects and public institutions. She is regularly published in architectural magazines (including Casabella, Domus, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’Hui, Le Moniteur). She gives tertiary lectures (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Florida International University, Polytechnic University of Milan, University of Genoa, Italian Institute of Culture - Addis Ababa) and leads workshops at a university level.
Her projects have been exhibited internationally, in art galleries and public institutions, such as La Triennale, Milan, Venice Architectural Biennale, Cornell University, Ithaca, MAO Ljubljana, and Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art, Genoa.
Anna is based in Genoa, Italy.