Milan, the devastation of the Ganges in Giulio Di Sturco's photographs on display at the Fondazione Stelline

In Milan, the Stelline Foundation opens its 2020 exhibition season with Ganga Ma, the exhibition by Giulio Di Sturco (Roccasecca, 1979), scheduled from Feb. 6 to March 22.

Curated by Eimear Martin, the exhibition is the result of a decade-long photographic research on the Ganges River documenting the devastating effects of pollution, industrialization and climate change. The project follows the river for more than 2,500 miles, from its source in the Gangotri Glacier, located in theHimalayan range, to its mouth in the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh. The result is a philosophical reflection in images that portends a not-too-distant future, allowing us to perceive the looming toxic, post-apocalyptic world.

Ganga Ma began as a long-term documentary project, conceived as a testimony to the unfolding of an ongoing ecological disaster. However, in the creative process Giulio Di Sturco fashioned a true visual language, capable of showing himself sensitive to the changes that have already occurred on the Ganges and probing the landscape for signs of what lies ahead. The Ganges is an emblematic example of the unresolved contradiction between man and the environment, as it is a river intimately connected with every aspect (physical and spiritual) of Indian life.

Giulio Di Sturco invites the audience to enter the work and after the initial daze of the seductive and poetic image, which reveals the majesty of nature from the perspective of the river and its banks, to see its toxicity, the devastating effect of industrialization but also of climate change and urbanization.

The exhibition is accompanied by the monograph of the same name(Gost Books, 2019), with a beautiful introductory essay by Vandana Shiva, an Indian writer and environmentalist and one of the main leaders of theInternational Forum on Globalization, and the curator.

For all information you can visit the official website of the Stelline Foundation. To learn more about Giulio Di Sturco you can visit the official website by clicking here.

Pictured: Giulio Di Sturco, Ganges (2014). Courtesy Podbielski Contemporary

Milan, the devastation of the Ganges in Giulio Di Sturco's photographs on display at the Fondazione Stelline

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