Giulio Di Sturco. Ganga Ma, Exhibition Stelline Foundation, Milan

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Giulio Di Sturco. Ganga Ma

From 6 February to 22 March 2020

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Stelline Foundation

Corso Magenta, 61, Milan

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If the Ganges lives, India lives. If the Ganges dies, India dies. - VANDANA SHIVA [Milan, January 30, 2020] Photography takes center stage at the Stelline Foundation, which opens its 2020 exhibition season with Giulio Di Sturco's Ganga Ma, curated by Eimear Martin (February 6 - March 22, 2020). Ganga Ma is the result of a decade-long photographic research on the Ganges River documenting the devastating effects of pollution, industrialization, and climate change. The project follows the river for over 2,500 miles, from its source in the Gangotri glacier in the Himalayas to the mouth in the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh. The result is a philosophical reflection through images that foresees a not too distant future, allowing us to perceive the looming presence of a toxic and post-apocalyptic world. With Ganga Ma (Mother Ganges), as curator Eimear Martin emphasizes, Giulio Di Sturco "treats the river as a true character, a 'living entity,' offering us a close and poetic portrait of the Ganges that forces us to reflect on the serious impact of climate change and the devastating consequences of intensive agriculture, industrialization, and urbanization along its banks." The exhibition features a selection of 27 photographs ranging from the detachment of documentary photography to an almost painterly response to the ecological and atmospheric conditions of the Ganges. Through a poetic and measured language and through what can be defined as an "aesthetics of pollution," the photographer focuses his lens on the ecological disaster affecting the most sacred and revered river in India, the Ganges. Ganga Ma began as a long-term documentary project, conceived as a testimony to an ongoing ecological disaster. However, in the creative process, Giulio Di Sturco has shaped a true visual language, capable of being sensitive to the changes already occurring on the Ganges and of investigating the landscape in search of signs of what awaits us.

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