{"id":23968,"date":"2024-01-24T11:13:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T10:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/napex.art\/?post_type=product&#038;p=23968"},"modified":"2026-03-03T14:16:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:16:31","slug":"napex-233163","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/napex.art\/en\/product\/napex-233163\/","title":{"rendered":"NAPEX 233163 LIMITED"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"23968\" class=\"elementor elementor-23968\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6031987a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default sc_fly_static\" data-id=\"6031987a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-extended\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-48ebbc32 sc_content_align_inherit sc_layouts_column_icons_position_left sc_fly_static\" data-id=\"48ebbc32\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-73a6446b sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"73a6446b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6>Napex 233163 <span style=\"opacity: 0;\">Napoli Explosion exhibition<\/span><\/h6>\nAnd then there are the eruptions that no one witnessed. Those lost in the world's memory, buried in tectonic layers, mixed with fossils of creatures that were not us. These eruptions foreshadowed forms, prepared the landscapes, anticipated the silence that would follow. The aftermath was the vegetal eruption that covers, the animal eruption that populates and repopulates. It is here that the myths and rituals that constitute the collective narrative of the Earth and its inhabitants are born. They are the photographs of all those ancestral eruptions.\nHowever, photography is alive and as unpredictable as dreams. We see it awaken every year. It is the collective consciousness of this place as it prepares to start anew each year. From the top of the geological eras, myths, rituals, and tales, Napoli Explosion emerges from the mountain's memory and participates in its cyclical nature. Mountains, as we know, can be calm, can stand still, can wait. But they bear the memory of the storm in their belly. That memory is the photography that Mario Amura has been creating for years.\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/romancestudies.unc.edu\/faculty-member\/serenella-iovino\/\">Serenella Iovino<\/a><\/p>\n\n<h6>Napoli Explosion exhibition<\/h6>\nThe window of my bedroom overlooked Mount Vesuvius, and every morning, with reverence, I whispered a good morning to it as one would address a slumbering person, afraid of awakening them. The volcano is a living presence for anyone living at its slopes. For over 12 years, on New Year's Eve, my team and I ascend Mount Faito, a mountain overlooking the Bay of Naples, to capture the extraordinary choreography of lights and colors produced by fireworks all around Vesuvius. Through this superstitious and propitiatory ritual, the people of Naples welcome the new year. 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