ELV | Massimo Leardini | Stanley Barker 2020 Eichi Shuppan undignified gods appear in their

undignified gods appear in their merry dance

and just wandering around is exciting

" but through continued creation

” -  from Shigeru Yamazaki’s afterword

ELV | Massimo Leardini | Stanley Barker 2020 Eichi Shuppan undignified gods appear in their"This new publication ELV (Norwegian for River) explores Leardinis fascination with the body and the landscape. Presenting a series of transcendental images of contorted fragments of the female body, set deep within in the primordial forests of Scandinavia. The map that Leardini unfolds is not built, but behaves like a puzzle in the imagination. The photographs were made in summers between 2014 and 2019 when the Scandinavian light lengthens the