curated by Rosita Ronzini as part of the AVANT Festival
*La Planète Sauvage* is a 1973 animated science-fiction film for adults, directed by René Laloux and written by Laloux and Roland Topor. The film was an international co-production between French and Czechoslovakian companies. The story is allegorical, centring on humans living on a strange planet dominated by gigantic humanoid aliens who regard them as animals. The photographic project, created as part of AVANT, a boutique festival featuring live contemporary music and cultural activities, takes the form of a narrative exploring the flora and fauna of Salento, the homeland of the artist Sara Scanderebech, which aims to subvert the canonical visual imagery of Salento, moving away from the commercial stereotypes to which this region is often associated. The visual and audio installation, designed for the space of the Castle of Corigliano d’Otranto, presents the photographic images across a range of scales, to the extent that the entire form of each subject is lost, giving rise to a new, visionary, post-human appearance.
Sara Scanderebech
She was born in Nardò, in the Salento region. She moved to Milan to study at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. After graduating in Visual Arts, she worked as a photographer for the Carla Sozzani Gallery; in 2019, she was the official photographer for the German Pavilion during the Venice Biennale and exhibited at the Otto Zoo Gallery in Milan as part of the group show ‘Savage’.
