Le Souffle de la Montagne Noire
2019 - 2024
In the mysterious territories of Italy, a powerful imagination is at work. Legends mingle with reality, and human and natural forces exert themselves in ways that are as fascinating as they are terrifying, revealing ancient secrets as well as many contemporary challenges. Destructively powerful volcanoes, devastating earthquakes, toxic mists, unpredictable floods... Forces are at work, sometimes beneficent, sometimes devastating, instilling fear, defying scientific predictions and rendering any power of resistance derisory. As it is explored, the Black Mountain reveals the complex relationship between man and nature in the Anthropocene era, in a land where beliefs, myths, religion and rationality intertwine.
“If we are to judge nature as sublime dynamically, we must present it as arousing fear. For when we judge something aesthetically (without a concept), the only way we can judge a superiority over obstacles is by the magnitude of the resistance. ”
