Urban Photo Awards 2022 Trieste Airport

Sustainable Future

 

“Hello you brilliant young people, ready to change the world and make it a better place because you
are in it, saving it from its self-inflicted wounds and self-propelled doom?
Ask yourselves: Where are you, at your age of wanting to change things?
A few words as you go on your journey:
Every word uttered today is political. There is no escaping it. The atmosphere has become
contaminated.”

Ages Denes

There must be a Good Wave coming…
Lost and retrieved Items in City Architectures as pieces of Souls in damaged enviroments.
Diamonds in the rough as many exploited gems in a geological reorganization.
The Alien appears like just landed from above sensing the Dystopic setting of casual choices or
casual happenings.
Deliberatly giving the observer the chance of a new fruition and highlighting lost opportunities of a
Civilization that tries and retries to get updated and upgraded to Modernity with scarse success.

MEGANOVA©
one of our best possibile futures.
duo collaboration MEGANOVA©.

Performative event includes 5 DigitalArt Photography pieces that portrait an Alien Futuristic
Creature sorting locations with a possible future for our species.
#Sustainability, #Enviromentalchallenges within the present hystorical turnouts.
Inspired by the book ‘Civilized to death’ by Christopher Ryan and our Italian lanscapes in wich so
much is present, yet abandoned or left to decay, we follow the sight of our character telling trough
signs of her passage truths and focal points for an alchemization of our present.
From a mutual research on forgotten places worldly called #URBEX, in relation to man and his new
way of living the Planet, adopting the utmost care for his systems, the futuristic Situationist
photographic project born ‘Meganova’, a superluminous Supernova, sees the two artists working in
tandem with a character who will represent the future of man in places and spaces where he will be
the ‘portal path’ that can be used by an audience in an interactive Performative form on a floating
spaceship that recalls pieces of a Stargate with the most sophisticated technology.
A diary testimony of the journeys undertaken to discover through the objective eyes of this new
alien-human specie that will shed light on new ways of interpreting the current reality.

CONNECT
we are able to glimpse one of the best possible futures, in harmony with what surrounds us exalting
as well as respecting this wonderful planet we inhabit.
It’s not about Nature herself, that in eras challenged man to the point of making him choose
aggressiveness and exploitation like revenge to the previous challenging times where he was just
fighting for survival, having to face harmful events accross millenia, from beavers to estreme
climate conditions.
Now is all about clever choices and readjustments.
A new dialogue between US and our enviroment as grown up specie that includes safer approaches
and establishes boundaries to the so called updated reality.
A Poetic Pop Renaissance that uses a magical realism , an existentialist post Lowbrow language
within an Anime surrealism to peak with a candyeye selection of ultra digital portraits of a non
human, extraordinary creature sight, fruit of a narrative that enhances care and warmth vs the too
many harsh visions that humans face within the media and reality worlds of today.

MEGANOVA ©
CONCEPTUALART
Anna Bastoni Performer, Multimedia Artist, Conceptual Artist has been working since ’96 on
Multimedia Works using Photography
Performing Art and Direction in Events, Group Exhibitions, Biennials, Festivals in Galleries,
Museums and Theaters including
Macro Asilo, Maam, Macro Testaccio Ex Mattatoio, Teatro Quirino , Sala Nervi, Volksbühne
Theater Berlin, Vascello Theater, Rome
Botanical Garden, Ex Lanificio / DAF, Other Works in Progress Gallery, Piomonti Gallery, Mind
Pirates Gallery Berlin and others with publications in art magazines such as Art a Part of Culture, DanzaSi, Urbanmirrors, Roma Today, InsideArt, DromeMagazine, Artribune, Undo.net,  for Peformances and Personal works and in collaboration with International Artists.

This Featuring sees Mojtaba Panahi, a Persian Photographer specialized in Portrait Photography