La mora e il cavallo

This sequence of photographs was taken on film in last year in Sardinian. It's an unpublished series.

This sequence of photographs (belonging to a larger series) was taken over the last two years in the Montiferru region of Sardinia. It is the third part of a trilogy that began in 2018, when I decided to leave life in Paris to move to the village of Bonarcado and re-open my maternal grandfather's house.

The first project of the trilogy, Perdosu (from Sardinian: "Pietroso”, 2018-2020), told of the first approach to the place, to the rituals of the territory, and to the construction of the first bonds with distant relatives and with the community.

The second project, Carabidda (2020-2022), documents my experience as fiza e anima ("soul daughter") in a family of shepherds, where I have been working for about two years: the title was inspired by the name of a horse, which in Sardinian means "towards the village".

The third series, entitled La mora e il cavallo, still ongoing and presented here, is the natural consequence of the first two: now inserted and accepted by the community in my role as shepherd-photographer, this series alternates a series of portraits ( which I most often create at the invitation of the inhabitants themselves), to photographs of the harsh and ancient Sardinian landscape, dotted with mysterious stone ruins from the Bronze Age, sacred wells dedicated to the cult of fertility, sheepfolds lost between Mount Entu and the Campeda plateau. La mora e il cavallo is the name of the territory that hosts the sheepfold where I work as a sheep shepherd together with my ‘soul father’.