The verbo-photographic series Due (2025) portrays places on the Tyrrhenian coast of Calabria in Southern Italy characterized by the travels of matter and people between land and sea.

For example, the diptych Due – Attraversare il mare (2025) depicts the interior of the Piedigrotta church, which is said to have been carved into the rock by a group of sailors as an ex voto offering after they survived a shipwreck. Due – Oltre (2025) showcases the lights of the industrial port of Gioia Tauro—today a hub for goods along the coastline—captured from Capo Vaticano, a place associated with mythical journeys.

The photographs are part of the research for the video work Oltremare (2025). Reworking visual notes gathered for the video, the project Due employs double images and repetitions as echoes of a cinematic vision and of the doubling inherent in every displacement—evoking the point of departure and the point of arrival, what leaves and what remains. Annotated with a marker on glass, some words taken from conversations recorded with the artist’s father on different stories of emigration capture fragments connected to the idea of movement.

MLB Gallery at ArtVerona
2025