Grav(E)Ity

• Photographer
  Christian Basetti

As a photographer of abandoned places, I often look for rooms with a dormant architectural beauty. But in some cases this beauty is not only compromised by dirt, cobwebs and clutter. When time influences the resistance of the ancient materials it happens that gravity follows its course and the ceilings (also very beautiful) collapse in the room, definitively pronouncing the end of this beauty. So I conceived as a title a play on words between "gravity", as silent and guilty force, and "grave" understood as a physical heap of material on a corpse and metaphorical end of the room.

Christian Basetti from Milan. Since 2015, he has been passionate about ancient decadent places, giving voice to these structures full of melancholy charm as if they were silent narcissistic creatures waiting for someone to express their greatness. Creator of Forgotten Art-chitectures project, decayed places are not shot just with an usual limited documentary aspect, as many others do, but they are like fine art canvas aimed at aesthetics. Inspired by Caravaggio's style in the representation of environments, with a similitude prostitutes and beggars=decadent places turned in something nobler.