With the 9 works that make up the series Indizi terrestri (Terrestrial Clues), Pio Tarantini addresses in a symbolic way so many fundamental concepts for human life - Knowledge, Eros, Pathos, Expectation, Happiness, Time, Spiritual, Dream, Earthly - and he partly quotes the title of a literary work by the Russian poet Marina Cvetaeva (Terrestrial Clues. Moscow Diary, 1917-1919), because the works consist of visual fragments resulting from photographic layering.

In the course of his research, the stylistic tools used to make these themes tangible photographically were essentially two: the use of multiple superimposed images - especially in the works dedicated to time and memory - and the use of photographic blurring as an expressive tool for the concept of existential precariousness, in the dual version of blurred human figures placed in highly connoted environments or against neutral backgrounds, in which the gaze is focused only on the figure itself.

In Indizi terrestri, the author prefers the tool of layering, selecting from a very large production photographic shots whose superimposition synthesises the nine concepts mentioned above.

It is a choice of synthesis that seeks to distil his reflection on some fundamental aspects of our presence in the world. A kind of phenomenology of existence, visually reduced to the present impracticability of given certainties, where the answers can only be changeable, complex, stratified - in fact, far from the most determined visions of a positivist or ideological flavour.

Catalogue of the 2024 exhibition at Lab1930 Milan.