Introducing Luca Arena and The Lagoon is not pink! A journey in Iceland covering just over 3800 km in search of the most aseptic and impersonal parts of the island, with the idea of isolating tourists and people from the environmental context.
Iceland is a country where children leave their bicycles untied along the road and where a yellow light means slow down and not speed up.
Water is everywhere, but it is the only product in supermarkets with an English label, bottled for tourists.
In August there was a volcano that erupts, to facilitate visits they built two paid parking, in the middle of nowhere.
Looking for off-the-beaten-track places we ended up in the most isolated fjord, where eleven people live. We met one with his dog and he was surprised to see us. In these places, there is only one time, that of Winter. The Christmas decorations, which are also fixed in the summer, testify to this.
Luca Arena (1988) was born on the first day of spring at 9:30. He is colour-blind for 34 years and every day he tries to get over it. He studied economics and marketing at the University of Pisa and during his free time he devotes himself to travel and photographic reports.
Very focused on the theme of colours and their perception, he loves to photograph urban and suburban contexts isolating them from the surrounding environment.
He has several solo exhibitions and online publications. The work Impersonalism: Tenerife was presented to the public with a personal exhibition at Spazio 32 in La Spezia, the cultural reference point of the Carispezia Foundation, while the project Á means river | Ísland and the homonym book was exhibited at GATE 26A in Modena.
He prefers large-format printing, poster paper and open-air exhibition venues, especially if they are grey and impersonal.
www.luca-arena.it
IG: @liuk_arena
