Nuove Avventure Sotterranee at Maxxi

A commissioning project that brings documentation and artistic research into dialogue, providing an extraordinary viewpoint on the construction of large infrastructures.

Overview

Ghella commissioned photographers Domingo Milella, Stefano Graziani, Rachele Maistrello, Giulia Parlato, and Luca Nostri to photograph five underground infrastructures on four continents.

The five chosen photographers freely documented the birth of major works in Italy, Canada, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand. They intentionally left a poetic and non-didactic distance between the images and the construction sites. That distance is the space of research, where we develop reflections on the imagination of large infrastructures and glimpse new storytelling possibilities.

The exhibition itinerary includes more than one hundred images: those of artists who observed and interpreted infrastructure and those from Ghella's archives, documenting infrastructure built between the late 1960s and early 2000s.