IN - SEC - TA

This work examines some of the insects of the European entomological fauna. The insects are divided into three parts, in “septa” precisely.

Therefore the title In-sec-ta, refers to the three region of their bodies:head - thorax and abdomen.

The root of its name, underlining the subjects taken into consideration in reference to their segmented bodies.

My research starts in the scientific area and push the boundaries of it, using photography as medium of expression.

The choice of depicting the insects in a clean, rather graphic way, is inspired by two reference texts by German authors, Ernst Junger’s “Thin Hunts” (1967)

and Albert Hoffmann’s “In Praise of Pure Contemplation” (1997). In Junger’s text there are references to the first phase of his work in regards

of the entomological hunting and the pleasure it brings with it. It is an invitation to look and experience deeper.

As we would genuinely appreciate and contemplate, for example, a landscape so we are invited to do so with an insect as it embodies all the complexity

of that peculiar ecosystem.In Hoffmann’s book, there is instead the aesthetic contemplation of the lines,of the forms, the behaviors or the poses hired by

the insects. This leads to an oxymoron in which scientific research is charged with creativity and the artistic component of technical rigor.