Microelements towards Macro
(elements)voids
Celeste Tellarini
Celeste Tellarini (1994) is an architect, urban planner and documenter. After studying at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, in 2020 she graduated in Architecture and Urban Design in Milan and Manchester. Since 2018 Celeste has been meticulously documenting the ultraordinariness through microelements: a photographic series and public archive obsessively shared on social platforms. Her interest is based on a non-conforming perception of what surrounds us, of the profession and of the territory, far from labels, binary oppositions and precise definitions. Since 2019 she is based in Brussels, where she is part of the office Dogma.
The act of creation of the beach is the spatial result of the will to approach a macroelement or a macrovoid. Thus, the beach as ultimate parterre becomes the device through which allows us to get closer to the biggest entity with which we have the opportunity to interact – the sea. In most cases, this act of approaching needs a transformation of the limit, of the ground, and of the topography, defining an active operation.
Far from the coastline, the relation with the macro involves different subjects, it reduces and adapts its scale to the urban environment, but the need to establish points of contact is resolved through a similar strategy than the one mentioned.
The photographic project aims to create through analogy a series of pairs – compared both visually and spatially – of extremely different places in which acting on the ground allowed to make the approach to macroelements and macrovoids possible.
