Augusto Morelli

What drives you to create?

I began photographing drawn by the idea of being able to stop time, and later, I was driven to explore what ‘reality’ around us truly is. The need to find peace among my thoughts led me to closely observe trees and water, and in its reflections, I imagined finding a window that could offer me a different point of view from the one we usually see as we go about our daily lives. That’s how I discovered the existence of the rift — the fracture between our reality and the world that lies ‘beyond’ — through which I observe my chaos and show it to the world. And every time it happens, there is a song that accompanies me on the journey.

What inspires you?

My art is born from the need to explain—first and foremost to myself—the meaning of what lies beyond my own skin. It’s probably also a way to shout to the world that I exist, and to try to hear the world shout back, to understand that it, too, exists. That’s why I’m always searching for new points of view through which to observe it, as if I were seeking connections, signals, a new grammar that might show me the way toward unknown languages and interpretations of the world.

How do you bring your works to life?

My works are born in an instinctive and simple way. The search for objects to observe from different perspectives is almost always guided by chance. As for reflections, however, they are influenced by the weather and the seasons, because various conditions need to coincide at a specific moment.