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| Marco Barbon / Asmara Dream |
Asmara Dream is born of a desire to evoke through images of urban details, objects, interiors and portraits, the characteristic atmosphere of Asmara, Eritrea’s capital city. Realized between 2006 and 2008 with a Polaroid 690 camera, this work suggests the idea of a suspension of time and history, between a colonial past which has deeply marked the town and a present which seems to be frozen in a never-ending wait. The result gives the impression of a dream, hence the title of the series.
A dream is, in a way, an interruption, a tear in the plot of time. In a dream everything seems to have another rhythm, to flow differently. Objects and persons are more aerial, more tenuous, and more abstract, as if suspended in a timeless limbo. The same impression strikes the visitor of Asmara at each step: a bar counter, the façade of a building, an old man reading a newspaper, a chandelier, a shop board – in the face of this we are left to wonder what age we are in, whether in the present or in some hidden place in our memory. |
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Marco Barbon
Born in Rome in1972, he lives and works in Paris.
After getting a B.A. in Philosophy from the University La Sapienza in Rome and a Ph.D in Esthetics of Photography from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, he worked for four years as a photo-editor for Magnum Photos.
He is currently dedicating himself to his own photographic, editorial and didactic projects. His photos have been exhibited in Italy and France and published in several international magazines.
Asmara Dream is his first book.
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