Fontanesi
The Fontanesi project presents a collection of visual combinations that are as surprising as they are appealing. This anonymous Instagram profile was launched in 2012 and now boasts some 40 000 followers. The account presents over 6000 posts produced with the Layout app. Each post comprises two halves of different images that have been cleverly assembled with either a horizontal or vertical cutting line. Together, they create a new image which becomes a surrealist and poetic trompe l’oeil, blurring the boundaries of reality and fiction. This process is both amusing and fun, and culminates here in an obsession. The installation created for Festival Images Vevey was proposed by Kublaiklan, an Italian curatorial collective, and tailor-made for a playground near the Swiss Museum of Games. It is an adaptation of Kublaiklan’s installation that was part of the open-air photography festival that took place in the town of Gibellina, Sicily, in partnership with Images Vevey, in the summer of 2019.
