newitalianblood

When Mandelbrot, father of the fractals' geometry, described his experience of researcher, he used to define it as: "nomads by choice, pioneers out of need"; thus, when I think of McCurry, I apply the same aphorism to his life of tireless researcher of the human nature. His life looks like a long journey in which his NY residence is a baggage room more than a refuge to restore himself: his home is everywhere. While our idea of home resembles arrogant declarations of power well established on the land we occupy, to pictures of individual happiness that do not envisage any collective effects, the houses in his photos are precarious, like the lives of those people who those houses inhabit. And it is exactly that suggestion that I have tried to represent within the large spaces of the Macro, a layout similar to a nomads' village, structures that merge to restore that sense of solidarity that you can breathe in McCurry's photos.