Jacopo Di Cera, the vertigo of the peaks that observe us mute

At unimaginable heights, the vision becomes liquid, shadows sweep, perspectives change and everything is tinged with dreamlike beauty. And from the enchanted peaks, a cry of pain almost seems to descend to the valley, of which photographer Jacopo Di Cera is the undisputed interpreter. His exhibition-installation 'White Entropy', with its zenithal shots, is a calm and relaxed, yet no less 'disturbing' invitation to the evils that afflict the Alps and beyond.

"White Entropy is a project that was born about ten years ago, when I wanted to start telling the story of Italy from a completely different point of view," the artist tells us, "from a zenithal point of view, therefore looking at the scene from above, putting everyone on the same level. This gave rise to the desire to tell the story of a mountain with human presence inside, and so the photographic exhibition tells the story of this gradual path of human presence within the mountain ecosystem'.

And so, from the Alpe di Siusi to Mont Blanc, from Val di Fassa to Val Badia, passing through Roccaraso and Madonna di Campiglio, 'White Entropy', precisely in view of the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympics, re-reads the peaks with an unusual narrative approach, with the white of the snow turning from a symbol of uncontaminated silences into a backdrop crowded with multitudes heedless of the transformations that crowd, colour, shade and shadow, while, something that Sunday sportsmen care little about, the glaciers die and the peaks suffer. And the reversal that Di Cera performs all records, poetically, without apparent jolts, with human figures invading and trampling and consuming. Natura non facit saltus, the ancients admonished. Di Cera notes this with the delicacy and strength that only extreme vertigo can render, and his aesthetic vision becomes universal not only in its warning. Climate change at his heights is an inescapable constant, his Munchian cry has superhuman echoes, which the mountains emit and which only the finest of hearers have so far caught.

WHITE ENTROPY, by Jacopo Di Cera, PhotoSquare, Milan Malpensa, until 31 March 2026