Today there are no borders between countries, towns and cultures and everything is pervading everything else and is constantly evolving. Understanding how the Italian contemporary town can be perceived can help us understand the way we live, being it the place where above all the historical strata are evident in their physicality. Architecture reflects and materializes the society that has created it: images of life, successes, defeats, dreams of an epoch are made concrete in its stones. Through its continuous presence, it helps us to understand who we are, because it places us in space and time. In the society I live in, everything is splitting up in an accelerated pace, everything is prone to fragmentation and to speed in a kind of post-futurism where eventually everything becomes liquid. These photos are thought as a patchwork reflecting this mix, an hybrid between virtual and authentic, where it’s difficult to understand what is real and what is not, because everything is brought to the same level of attention. Our awareness is therefore suspended and the tension between these mixed realities loads the picture of an hypnotic character, while we stay still searching for what is our reality. Other Information: The work has been done in Venice, a city where memory, history and contemporary time pervade one another, creating unexpected landscapes in time and space, as a kind of a collage between different spaces and times. The images have been created without the aid of digital processing.
