work
con-fini
| category | Photography |
| subject | Travels, Political / Social, Landscape, Nature |
| tags | politica, finipolitici, #confini, restrizione, costrizione, paesaggio, inferriate, guerra |
| base | 157 cm |
| height | 30 cm |
| depth | 3 cm |
| year | 2024 |
Con-fini originates from a photographic collage constructed from a sequence of landscapes crossed by fences and barbed wire. I recomposed these images into a fragmented panoramic structure, where the horizon of the territory appears continuous while the foreground is constantly interrupted by the presence of the barrier.
The work takes shape through an observation of the current geopolitical context, in which new physical barriers are multiplying across militarized borders, closed migration routes, and contested territories. In this scenario, the border is no longer just an abstract line on maps but becomes a material device that concretely reshapes the landscape and the way we move through and perceive it.
Through the repetition of the fence and barbed wire, the boundary transforms from an episodic element into a dominant visual structure. What begins as an instrument of separation becomes a grammar of the territory: the landscape remains open and visible, yet the gaze repeatedly encounters a barrier.
The title Con-fini introduces a double reading. On one hand, it refers to the border as a political construction and a device of territorial control; on the other, it suggests the condition of living with the limits that organize contemporary space. With this work, I am interested in observing how the border, before being a geopolitical concept, becomes a concrete presence inscribed in the landscape.
Artwork printed on certified Hahnemühle paper, mounted on Dibond with a 3 cm spacer.
Technique: photographic collage
Dimensions: 157 × 29.7 cm
Edition: edition of 2.
The work takes shape through an observation of the current geopolitical context, in which new physical barriers are multiplying across militarized borders, closed migration routes, and contested territories. In this scenario, the border is no longer just an abstract line on maps but becomes a material device that concretely reshapes the landscape and the way we move through and perceive it.
Through the repetition of the fence and barbed wire, the boundary transforms from an episodic element into a dominant visual structure. What begins as an instrument of separation becomes a grammar of the territory: the landscape remains open and visible, yet the gaze repeatedly encounters a barrier.
The title Con-fini introduces a double reading. On one hand, it refers to the border as a political construction and a device of territorial control; on the other, it suggests the condition of living with the limits that organize contemporary space. With this work, I am interested in observing how the border, before being a geopolitical concept, becomes a concrete presence inscribed in the landscape.
Artwork printed on certified Hahnemühle paper, mounted on Dibond with a 3 cm spacer.
Technique: photographic collage
Dimensions: 157 × 29.7 cm
Edition: edition of 2.
