Landscape Identity

By Francesco Capasso

"This work aims to reflect on identity and self-search, a current theme that poses questions. It attempts to break the traditionalist ideology that society often imposes by addressing the self within "nature."

Our ancestors founded their values and ideas about race, gender, and sexuality through pre-established and imposed conditions found in nature. Society forces us to identify ourselves within some traditional/perfect/natural categories.

Does nature represent the idea of perfection of the human being?

Perfection and nature undermine themselves with the search for the self within the landscape, formulating a contradiction of "nature."

In the first photograph, the bare tree has a clear sky, while in the second, the tree is covered with leaves and has a cloudy sky. There is a third tree in this photo. Still, seeing it needs a closer look; however, by doing it, we deconstruct how nature represents perfection and fall away from the traditionalist ideology society wants to impose on us."

Francesco Capasso was born in Naples in 2001 and became involved with visual art and photography as a teenager. In the early years his expressive research concentrated on the content of the forms and the peripheral landscape. He mainly uses photography, but in his latest works, he is experimenting with conceptual works, happenings, performances, audio, and artificial intelligence, having the landscape as a communicating mediator; the latter, for him, is a form of visibility and invisibility between what exists and what could exist . Furthermore, he carefully places his reflections on the observer, conceiving much of his works as a form of experience, between the observer and what is represented.