The landscape of the Dolomites preserves geological evidence of the Earth's past life. Their formation is rooted in coral reefs, undergoing transformations due to volcanic eruptions, tectonic plate movements and coral reproliferation, events that have shaped the surrounding landscape. This history incised in rocks and fossils in trace form also reveals how intense and enduring are the consequences of major extinction episodes, produced by global ecosystem crises such as the one we are currently experiencing. Such events, marked by an intersection of crisis and renewal of life, show a very high contingency, highlighting an extreme uncertainty in predicting who will be on the losing side and who will be on the winning side.
Photography, as an indicator, is an indispensable and necessary medium for representing the territory, that of our contemporaneity. A trace of reality that, just like the Dolomite landscape, documents our history. Both will remain unperturbed, waiting for the next extinction that will only add another layer of history to its side: our own.
