PROJECT BY ALESSIA MORELLINI

Summer is a state of mind, it is made of warm and enveloping shades, saturated tones and pastel colors; I chase it intensely for nine months and when it arrives I let myself be overwhelmed. “Summertime Blues” is a collection of visual memories of my last summers, it comes from a period of recovery after long winters that have put us to the test, it comes from the barren and sunburned landscapes, from the tanned skin and clear skies without clouds, in the warm summer light in which time expands and the rhythms slow down, it is the time of quiet and slow living. This feeling of placid euphoria always turns into a kind of melancholy and malaise when this chapter ends, and the images I have collected speak for themselves: lonely characters scanning the horizon, the colors darken, the sea becomes nostalgic and the towns on the coast depopulate. It’s a slightly melancholic eulogy of the magic and beauty of the summer now over with the bitter realization that “There ain’t no cure for the summertime blues”.