Michael Oréa: i vesuviani
Büro für Fotos, Cologne
14 March - 18 April 1998
The photographic series of MICHAEL OREA (b. 1963) shows a journey from Germany to Naples and his stay in the Italian metropolis in January 1998.
The artist took photographs from the very first moment of a 14-hour trip by train departing from Munich until his arrival in Naples. He expresses the various impressions he received on his way meeting "i vesuviani", those people living nearby the volcano Vesuvius. He focused on suburbs and their inhabitants as a very careful passer-by inscribing a distance in the photographic material he delivers.
Putting two very small sepia toned prints (archive format) on each page he formed an associative memory. These images force you to look very close as if you were reading a book. The non- conceptual and almost by coincidence selected images create a poetic and sensitive view of a journey.
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