Traversing Visions, 2020

Installation-like photo exhibition
Pigment prints
  (Owned by Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma)

EXHIBITED:
PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY HIPPOLYTE STUDIO, Helsinki, FI, 2020

For several years I photographed Italian cemeteries built after the Second World War. I’ve been above all interested in their architecture’s modern features and firm relation to the changing trends of urban development. I feel they offer for those left places of grieving where personal relates to the continuum of contemporaneity.

In Hippolyte Studio I showed photographs of San Cataldo cemetery in Modena designed by Aldo Rossi and the necropolis in Jesi designed by Leonardo Rizzi. San Cataldo represents modern architecture and the Jesi cemetery more sharp-angled and massive concrete brutalism. Both are huge wholes with uniform architecture built for the needs of cities expanding with rising industries.

I realized the exhibition as part of the gallery space by painting a free geometric shape following the measures of the space and the look of the displayed cemeteries.

Thanks to Finnish Cultural Foundation for the support of the photograph trips.