The city, between the present, reality and a fluid future

The image of reality is mixed up with the idea of the future in the photographer’s eye: a time lapse that certain avant-garde movements in the arts have attempted to represent.
In the same way, Arrigo Strina’s photographs seem to tell us a story: the story of today, of his time, to tell us what he thinks will happen.
His work is all about photo-montage and collage, interwoven with graphics, intended to make every photograph into a project in its own right.
Snapshots taken around the world overlap like memories and become sources of inspiration for design, as in the notebooks of the travels of great masters of architecture. Perhaps they are a project in their own right.
The photographer’s experiment takes us to the limits of the photographic image, making it a story of our contemporary identity.
The study entitled TOMORROWLAND tells the story of the fluid metropolis, joining cultural fragments made up of buildings, words, design and graphics. An expedient Arrigo Strina uses to put the observer of his works before potential urban transformations, hypothetical new visions of the city, starting with the present instant and going on from there.
His purpose is to incorporate the complexity of a place in his photographic reconstructions, its unique, unrepeatable way of abounding in cultural, anthropological and existential overtones; and how much could still be added to it.
 
Paolo Schianchi