The Wounded Landscape is a presentation of 35mm analogue slides shown through a carousel slide projector, that explores the theme of the marble quarries of Carrara as sites where beauty and violence coexist.

The presentation investigates how marble is the fetish of human desire and how, to obtain it, centuries of extraction have deeply disfigured the territory in an irreversible way.

The main subject is therefore not the marble but becomes the quarry of extraction, the landscape, as a living organism that is flayed and tormented, the quarry as an open wound in the territory and a battlefield between desire and loss.The projection is built upon the intense tension generated by two opposing worlds that nonetheless exist only through one another: the lacerated, scarred landscape of the quarries and what has been produced through that very act of violation, the David by Michelangelo, an icon of everything Western culture understands as beauty, purity, harmony, proportion, and immortality.

The project is structured through a systematic alternation of slides between a photograph taken in the quarries and a detail of Michelangelo’s David. Each pair of images is based on a formal or symbolic resemblance: starting from a significant detail of the quarry, I selected a corresponding detail of the sculpture.

The sequence follows a clear progression: with each new pair of images, the level of zoom increases by one, in order to progressively emphasise the similarity between the two subjects. The first pair is zoomed twice, the second three times, and the final one four times.