E' un varco

Chiara Pavolucci reimagines the margins as spaces of transition, resistance, and transformation. Through photography and collective exploration, she unveils places where stories, time, and nature intertwine, inviting new ways of seeing.

Chiara Pavolucci’s research investigates the margin as a space of transition, resistance, and possibility. Moving across different territories - primarily in Italy, including inland mountain villages affected by depopulation, wetlands, islands, and areas of “third landscape” - and extending to Berlin, she engages with in-between and hybrid spaces where natural and urban, private and public intersect.

Rather than a fixed condition, the margin emerges as a fluid construct shaped through encounters. It becomes a threshold where different worlds meet and transform, a fertile ground where complexity and alternative forms of knowledge can surface beyond dominant narratives. These overlooked territories reveal stories of resilience, care, and coexistence.

Photography is her primary medium, intertwined with collective practices and writing. Her work is grounded in walking as an embodied method of research: through rhythm, fatigue, and sensory experience, she builds a situated and vulnerable relationship with place. Pavolucci collaborates with local communities, inviting participants to explore marginal spaces together. The images arise from encounters, conversations, and workshops, and are accompanied by texts produced during collective writing sessions, forming a polyphonic narrative.

Maintaining a nomadic attitude, the project unfolds across contexts while questioning how meaning is produced at the edges. In a performance-driven society, these spaces reveal slower temporalities often dismissed yet essential.

Her work ultimately questions perception itself: how do we look, and what becomes visible when we shift our gaze? Through images and words, Pavolucci constructs a shared geography of experience shaped by movements, voices, and encounters.