Salvatore Laurenzana
/ Italy

Salvatore Laurenzana lives and works in Potenza, where he
was born in 1968. He collaborates with architects, landscape
designers, philosophers, sociologists, poets, graphic designers,
theatre companies and cultural festivals. His photographs are
always produced and exhibited in socially relevant contexts,
and have been published in magazines such as Domus,
Paesaggio urbano, Meridiani.
In his work, whether it is the documentation of a dance
performance, an atavistic ritual such as transhumance, or the
environmental impacts of oil extraction, he is always attentive
to the search for a form of storytelling in which the subtle
relationship between human gesture and its consequence is
shown, maintaining a vigilant attention to what is human in
the notion of territory and landscape.
I tuffatori di Mostar (The divers of Mostar) celebrates the
unexpected poetry of a jump which, deprived by the rain of
tourist and speculative purposes, recovers its ritual power.
The Bosnian bridge is a symbol of connection between East
and West: it was destroyed during the Balkan war and later
rebuilt, increasing its symbolic power.