Daily busy performing acts, crossing cities, moving toward inexistent destinations, and then returning to the starting point and beginning again: this is how the stylized traffic light men, from their high vantage point, would read each person’s life.
Unable to figure out the reasons for a sometimes hurried and sometimes slow pace. They would assign the green color to pleasant actions shared by the rest of the community, and red to vices and taboos.
While yellow, often the most underestimated signal, represents choice, free will, and change.
In a play between real and imaginary, Matteo Cervone stages daily routines with common objects that, in their impartiality, highlight contemporary merits and flaws.
Curatorship Rosanna Accordino – Paratissima Torino 2022
Review Project Feedback – Lens Culture
A very creative series where allow the viewer to focus on one detail from reality (the traffic light men) to make them the subject of an imaginary narrative. Like actors in a theatrical play or a book they assume identities, wishes, activities and we enter a story as we journey through each image using the titles and captions and a guide […]
Added to the strong visual quality is the way it use the background in relationship to the light/men to formulate a background/setting […] Visual puns also are playfully captured […]
Each composition is carefully designed and the series has a consistency tying it together.
Lens Culture (Berkeley, CA 94707 USA) 10.01.2023