VERI, ORANGINA & APEROL SPRITZ

Veri, Orangina & Aperol Spritz is the result of a collaboration between two young Spanish artists, Sofía París and Andreu de Pedro. The book grew out of a summer spent on the coasts of Spain, Italy and France. The book was shaped, forged and written in the moments of photography, contemplation and inactivity. Through the story of a voyage around the Meditarranean Sea, this book tells a love story that touches on the universal. The images gathered here embody the love between a man and a woman, but also, and above all, the love of men for this ‘sea in the middle of the earth’, Veri, Orangina & Aperol Spritz its waters, its culture, its history. Inspired by the heroes of antiquity and the Homeric texts, the artist duo propose a visual, sensitive and intimate exploration of a geographical space that never ceases to fascinate us. Produced on film, this original work offers a sensual plunge into the world of the Mare Nostrum. Imbued with a Nouvelle Vague aesthetic, as well as the work of Claude Nori, this book is as much an exploration of the plastic — close-ups, fragmented images, landscapes, still lifes — as it is a philosophical one: what is the nature of the bond that unites us to one another? What links us to the Mediterranean Sea? The book is set in time, that of a summer, while at the same time breaking away from it. It carries the eternal voices of the men and gods who have lived in this land for thousands of years.