ALESSANDRA LETA
Carte Blanche Students Laureates
Université de Bâle / University of Basel
Bâle, Suisse / Basel, Swiss
Alessandra Leta (b. 1997, IT) is a visual researcher and photographer. Her practice lies at the intersection between archival archeology and the speculative narrative as a tool to re-think the past into the present. She holds a BFA in New Technologies for the Arts from Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and is currently finishing a MA in Critical Urbanisms at the University of Basel.
The Unmovable Mover
The Unmovable Mover is a visual investigation into the power dynamics within the infrastructure – social and physical – of the factory. The project attempts to combine visual references directly adopted from archeology and museography, as well as overlapping reflections related to the image as a document, as truth, and as fiction.
The work's aesthetic and conceptual starting point was the finding of a photograph in a Swiss antiquarian, which was later reworked and modified. The year is 1972, and at the desk of a very modest office sits an unidentified director of a local factory of spare parts and specialized machinery, which no longer exists today. Trying to exhume the private past of this small reality, the project tries to reconstruct a hypothetical hierarchical structure, through openly staged photographs taken in 2022.