2005–12
Ecuador, Italy, Tajikistan, Austria, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan
Countless km
Some of her images aim to restore an identity to places and faces, to recreate a relationship between land and its inhabitants. Created in Turkestan or in the Amazon, in the Caucasus or in Central Asia, they record instances of uprooting, of not belonging, of precariousness, with a language that is direct in appearance only, respectful of the places yet permeated by a subtle sense of ambiguity; born perhaps from awareness within the author of the transitory nature of one’s own presence, searching certainly for the identity of others but also that of herself. In sites of spellbound fascination Giada Ripa places herself in the scene with a fragile stability; a delicate feminine figure captured in the moment of greatest resistance to the forces of gravity.
2005–12
Ecuador, Italy, Tajikistan, Austria, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan
Countless km
Some of her images aim to restore an identity to places and faces, to recreate a relationship between land and its inhabitants. Created in Turkestan or in the Amazon, in the Caucasus or in Central Asia, they record instances of uprooting, of not belonging, of precariousness, with a language that is direct in appearance only, respectful of the places yet permeated by a subtle sense of ambiguity; born perhaps from awareness within the author of the transitory nature of one’s own presence, searching certainly for the identity of others but also that of herself. In sites of spellbound fascination Giada Ripa places herself in the scene with a fragile stability; a delicate feminine figure captured in the moment of greatest resistance to the forces of gravity.