Giulia Vanelli

 Giulia Vanelli: The Season

Curated by Tim Clark.

The past can be seen not as a dimension that has concluded but as an active presence that continues to resurface in the present, influencing the way we inhabit time and construct our identity. Some experiences, especially those lived during childhood and youth, do not dissolve as the years pass, but remain suspended, deposited like sediment in the places and gestures we go back through. The Season is born from that persistence. 

Set in a small seaside village in Tuscany, the project offers an emotional journey through memories intertwined with the photographer’s summers. The place, enriched by the ancestral magic it has cleverly guarded over the years, is capable of flattening rhythms and lengthening months, creating a cycle of time that seems to resist the changes taking place in the outside world. In this context slowness becomes a central element and invites us to reflect on the relationship between time and memory, as well as on the nuances of a relationship that can, depending on the circumstances, be both reassuring and claustrophobic.