A land of liquid borders told in light, wind and silence. Crupi’s images capture glaciers like crystal cathedrals, waterfalls with the force of primordial time, black beaches and the magic of the northern lights.
Glaciers like cathedrals of crystal, waterfalls tumbling into space with the force of primordial time, black beaches dotted with ice diamonds and, above it all, the magic of the Northern Lights: a breath of light that expands and disappears, a cosmic whisper that dances in silence. There are places that leave a deep mark on the soul, where time remains suspended and nature tells stories with the breath of water and wind. Iceland is one of them: a land of liquid boundaries between light and darkness, where the sky is never just sky and the earth is never just earth. Dedicated to the borderless horizons of this Atlantic island is Andrea Crupi’s photographic exhibition “Ten Years of Iceland, 2016-2025,” the first that SpazioCam presents at its new location in Borgo Palazzo 35/A: a visual account of the photographer’s travels to this land over ten years.
A journey that transcends documentary and becomes experience, immersion, anticipation and discovery. Because, as the photographer himself explains, “in Iceland, photography becomes the writing of light and wind, drawing maps of emotions and visual vertigo. Each shot is a fragment of a larger story, a portrait of an island that offers and portrays itself, that seduces and challenges with its stark and elusive beauty.”
Iceland is a succession of landscapes that seem to belong to another world: basaltic cliffs from which water cascades to form gigantic waterfalls, glaciers shining with an inner light, plains of black lava interrupted by expanses of moss of an unreal green. A wild and angular land, capable each time of astonishing with its primordial beauty. Each time new, because the climate here is always changing, as a local proverb reminds us, “if you don’t like Icelandic weather now, wait five minutes: it will probably get worse.”
“Ten Years of Iceland, 2016-2025” is thus an invitation to allow oneself to be traversed by the landscape, to lose oneself in the details in order to grasp the immensity, to slow one’s pace in order to enter the breath of nature. Crupi’s photographs are not just windows to a remote elsewhere: they are gateways to an inner dimension, in which the observer becomes a traveler, a witness to an experience suspended between reality and dream.
A new space for creativity
The exhibition “Ten Years of Iceland, 2016-2025” officially inaugurates the new path of SpazioCam, which from its historic location in Via San Tomaso, is moving spaces to its new location in Borgo Palazzo 35/A. The mission remains the same, and that is to be a place that gives voice and space to photography, art and creativity in all its forms. At the exhibition opening (Saturday, March 29, starting at 5:30 p.m.), the 2025 course calendar, new graphic, social and web design services and upcoming initiatives will be presented, as well as take advantage of exclusive offers reserved for the evening’s guests.
SpazioCam is always open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 10 a.m. to noon and 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. It is possible to visit the exhibition on other days and times by appointment by calling the contact information listed.
Photo credit: Andrea Crupi