Moreno Gentili Europe Terminal: Technological Mutations

by GENTILI MORENO

• ISBN13: 9788881584932
• ISBN10: 888158493X
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

"Space, Food, Armaments, Biological Sciences, Nuclear Energy, Medicine, Chemistry, Pharmaceuticals, Environment, Human Resources and Computers are some of the areas that form part of Europe Terminal, the photographic investigation begun by Moreno Gentili in 1992." "The challenge was to get inside places of production that would not have been open to any photographer and often not even to an ordinary citizen; qualities forming part of this investigation, which has become like a performance lasting over ten years, are the ability to pin-point the place to be photographed, to get into it and, if necessary, to change one's appearance so as to pass unnoticed. The result is a series of pictures that individually could often conjure up a grotesque and chilling story, and that in combination take us to places never seen yet very close to us." "Europe Terminal is an anti-romantic project, opposed to any kind of rhetoric, presenting a view of two parallel worlds: in one the wealth of the West increases, letting a dangerous relationship emerge between development and consumption; in the other we see the cross-contamination between technology and human life as a necessary element for survival, and even the bearer of a possible utopia. The book sets out to take a clear-sighted, committed look at this ambivalence, at the relationship between destruction and hope generated by technology in the continent where it originated."--BOOK JACKET.