Con Amore e Rabbia

Blending photography with archival material and text, the artist documents in Con Amore e Rabbia an eco-terrorist’s story while grappling with her own views on activism and justice and reflects on the blurred lines between heroism and transgression.

In his fight against the destruction of the Alpine landscape, the Graubünden anarchist Marco Camenisch (*1952) looks back on a 26-year prison sentence (including for bomb attacks, escape from prison and murder). Between admiration for the lifelong resistance and alienation towards the militant radicalism, the author searches for the human behind the big word «eco-terrorist». In the need to position herself in relation to Camenisch, she finds herself in a dilemma. Blending photography with archival material, Truog documents Camenisch’s story while grappling with her own views on activism and justice. Through diary entries and intimate portraits, she reflects on the blurred lines between heroism and transgression, questioning what it means to fight for a cause in a world that often reduces complex individuals to stereotypes. Truog’s work offers a nuanced exploration of resistance, identity, and environmentalism.