Pelle di Lava

Pelle di Lava Chiara Indelicato, photographer and resident of Stromboli, explores in her work life on a volcanic island, where the inhabitants live with the acute awareness of a finite world, at the mercy of the elements. Beneath the ashes, between the sea and the fire, she questions how to subsist in an environment with limited resources. Pelle di Lava has its origins in two disasters that occurred in 2022: a fire that ravaged the island’s vegetation, followed by torrential rains that caused mudslides that reached the village.
Through this project, Chiara Indelicato proposes a reflection on the climate emergency, claiming an animist relationship with nature and the right to defend this living, fragile land, for which the volcano itself becomes the spokesperson. Developing her images with coffee, vitamin C and seawater, in the absence of polluting methods, she weaves an organic link between her process and the island, rough and indomitable. This book is printed on Favini’s Alga Carta paper, created from algae whose abnormal proliferation
prolifération threatened the fragile ecosystem of the Venetian lagoon.