The main “actors” of the shots (photos) made by Mr C. Dell’Osa are
some of the most recurrent foods in the mediterranean diet: they
are humble, common and, at the same time, basic products of our
cuisine.
His photo cross section shows a series of sections describing the
whole plant, from its vegetable and leaves to its roots, soil
included. It also reveals the photographer’s attempt to get the
observer to recall an archaic millennial world ruled by Mother
Earth. It is a trip that clashes with the modern man’s reality and its
daily eating rhythms controlled by “a distorted perception of
foods”, that Mr Dell’Osa sees as something innatural and artificial.
For this reason, we should recover a kind of assimilation – no
matter whether it is visual and likely to last for the seconds of
observation – that pays particular attention to our origins.