Between the Eye and the Mind TEXT THE EDITORIAL OFFICE
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Reality can be imagined, constructed and even reconstructed. It can also be represented by difference or contrast with what is not real, as in an opaque mirror or a curved universe. If this kind of representation is of a photographic kind, it causes an alienating feeling in the eye and mind of the observer, making the representation seem ambiguous and much less reassuring. The reportage in this issue of the Bollettino is a journey through pseudo-realities captured by the lens, but who can deny that someone, at some definite time and place, took a photograph of something? And does the photograph portray reality or not? For example, the Sphinx, the pyramids and the Venetian gondolas are
CURATED BY CRISTIANA GIORDANO
certainly not real, but the perceptive experience of the tourists who visit them may be. And while the box-like, crowded Lilliputian city is not, of course, a real city, its relative dimensions are plausible and only the passing Gullivers in the background provide us with any sense of certainty. Finally, looking at the little robot - Pinocchio observed with amazement and curiosity by what appears to be his creator, can we consider it real? He is definitely not a living being (possibly a thinking one?) but then, neither was the real Pinocchio, except at the end of his very human story.
