Alps

Born from a multi-voiced project developed over seven years, Armin Linke’s film is composed of a series of images, sounds, and emblematic situations from the vast Alpine territory, which, within the artist’s body of work, take shape as a sort of ‘archive within the archive.’ Developed discontinuously to outline possible travel itineraries, Alpi takes us visually and physically far away in space and time, crossing nations along the mountain chain beyond their borders—reaching even the artificial snow of Dubai—and moving through mountain spaces where the dimensions of work and leisure intersect, ultimately arriving, almost in reverse, at the sites of transhumance routes, where our anthropological roots lie. Photography, sound, and editing all contribute to presenting a multifaceted vision, structured on various levels of representation of the Alps’ complex identity. Spanning the natural and the artificial, the film suggests multiple interpretations of what the Alps are and what they represent today—both in reality and in the imagination—through the lenses of art and science.