The works I’ m presenting were created during March and April 2020, the weeks when Covid 19 hit northern Italy (where I live) most heavily . They exemplify an intimate representation of the new unsettling issues that we, both as a community and as individuals, are experiencing during the Covid 19 time: loneliness, fear, loss of symbolic references, the scaling down of our lives, and an overall feeling that the world doesn’t belong to us, at least to the extent we thought it does. In order to achieve that, I present aerial scenes where architectural images, ancient and new, float amid unfamiliar starry skies and alongside portentous moons: weightless and enthralled by an unknown energy, these cities of the present and the past are captured by a subversive power. Combining dramatic lighting, and surrealist stage design, the otherworldly mise-en-scenes I create operate on a visceral, symbolic level. The absence of color lends a forensic quality to the uncanny nature of subject matter, and avoids pushing it into the realm of the sensational .

Marco Lando
April 2020