“After years of photographing systems — from energy to extraction — I turned inward.
In the forests of San Vi’, between mist and silence, I found echoes of Proust’s idea that the soul is a dark forest intertwined with genealogical trees.”

“In this small clearing among the woods, I’ve spent days over the past three years thinking, reading, lighting the stove.
I’ve reflected on the many emotions that have passed through these seasons — relationships and storms, surprises and silences, the meaning of work and love, loss and renewal.

San Vi’ – Genea Illogica is a quiet work: an artist book of 186 copies and three portfolio sets of 22 platinum prints (20×25 cm).
It turns inward, tracing the invisible lines between memory and presence, belonging and change — between what we inherit and what we choose to become.

It was born from a collaboration with a friend, bound by the strange coincidence of living through different storms at the same time, in different ways.
The work, and the place itself, became a metaphor of friendship and generosity, of roots and rediscovery, of silence that holds both absence and grace.”
- Davide Monteleone