Cara Foresta, by Guido Gazzilli, published by Grani edizioni. With Guido Gazzilli and Valentino Barachini

After fleeing from a city that tired his very soul out, it is in the heart of the woods that Guido can find himself again: there he deeply listens to the nearby creatures, and learns how to let go of the weight of his darkest years, marked by the shadowy spiral of the relationship with his father. While among the trees, shards of memories resurface from his childhood, when his father, lost in his illness yet surprisingly calm in the forest, offered him a direction. In town, he makes the acquaintance of Victoria, an unexpected and yet necessary presence. He asks her to follow him in to the forest, and she trustfully accepts the invitation, and allows herself to be led in that realm, where pain meets salvation. Their union takes shape in that silent world: it grows, takes roots and eventually it gives birth to a new life. Both laying on a welcoming ground, Guido feels the presence of a possible future, awaiting. Once a safe retreat, the forest now becomes the place for a new beginning.

Cara Foresta is an intimate body of work shaped by time, landscape, and material processes.
Moving through photography and handmade surfaces, the project emerges from a physical and emotional immersion in the forest—its light and shadow, its damp air, its slow rhythms. Images are formed through experimental techniques and natural interventions, allowing nature itself to leave traces on the work. Cara Foresta invites a quiet listening: to the pulse of the body, the breath of the forest, and the fragile moment in which life takes form.