Scotoma (or the impossibility of leaving) explores life on Vesuvius’ slopes, where one of Europe’s densest urban areas coexists with an active volcano dormant since 1944. Borrowing the psychiatric term, it reflects on denial and attachment.
Following the precepts in Lucretius’s De rerum natura, Soggetti a mutamento explores the metamorphosis of deteriorated negatives from earthquake-struck Irpinia, intertwining them with archival research and collective memory to question the city remembers