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June 2022
Roma
Graciela Iturbide photographed Rome in 2006 when Marco Delogu commissioned her this work for the annual edition of FotoGrafia - Festival Internazionale di Roma; before this work, the Mexican photographer had previously visited the capital three other times. Graciela Iturbide prefers the intimate Rome to the monumental one. At first she wanders around alone, walking for hours, then she takes her motorbike to discover working-class neighbourhoods like Garbatella, which she is fascinated by, and continues by car in th
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February 2021
Malìa
Malìa is one of those rare Italian words that are too transiently sculptured with potent possibility and resonance to specifically decipher, define and fix. Very approximately though, it means ‘spell’, but one that has negative implications or dark connotations, a spell of shades and portent. The sirens are a good example of this, they embody a shadow magnetised song, a chant of fantastical poetry sung in dark voices that spell binds men (sailors), dri
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January 2023
A season in Slemani
Between March and June 2019 Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli invited some artists to the city of Sulaymaniyah (Slemani, in the Kurdish language), in the Iraqi Kurdistan region, to join him to each develop their own project. The result was a program of artist residencies and remote collaborations, which led to a necessary comparison with the territory. Slemani is a secluded and difficult to reach place, which the artists have had the opportunity to experience in the dim
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December 2023
Until Death Do Us Part
"Until Death Do Us Part" collects a series of photographs found in a Beijing garbage dump, exploring the role played by cigarettes in Chinese wedding ceremonies; indeed, it is a tradition for the bride, as a sign of gratitude, to light a cigarette for each of her guests, and for the bride and groom to play a series of games with cigarettes as the protagonists.
Love and death go hand in hand in the images conta
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