A young researcher obsessed with J.G. Ballard looks for all the signs capable of explaining the world through the work of his spiritual master. The result will be a hallucinated epic that will lead the protagonist to travel from Australia to Europe to the Pacific islands, confronting each time with the ghosts of our iconography of the disaster: Mad Max, cyber culture, the crazy experiments of independent micronations, the dystopian science fiction, the Ufo

“This is by far my most ambitious work to date, and although I've worked hard not to become a one-hit wonder (that's why it has to become a hit first, right?) I'm not sure I'll ever do anything comparable in my life. If you have ever made a work of art, you know that there are what could be seen as a set of rules that emerge from the individual work: They are like the rul

While the search for the new is rooted in our human nature, we privately entertain ourselves with the pleasure of routine because it gives us the assurance of controlling and therefore dominating time... at least for the moment. In keeping with the poetics of his previous works, in A Swimming Pool, Tagliaferri immerses us in his love–hate relationship with routine: on the one hand, he attempts to escape from it, but on the other,

La Teoria del Vuoto stems from a photograph showing a scene of daily life in Buccinasco, in the province of Milan. In that suburban quiet years ago, weapons were found, hidden or abandoned by unknown people. From that find takes shape a network of episodes, places and people that expands throughout Italy, trickling down to Platì, a small town near Reggio Calabria whose history for decades has been linked to that of Buccinasco. The p

A new book in the Quaderni series following on from Prima del diulvio and Tutto va a Fuoco. Venti Oceanici is presented as a logbook, where the image of the sea is always the same yet always different and inscrutable. The sea eternity caught by the obsessive repetition of the photographs is a pretext for reflection and search for meaning about life. Photos, design and handcrafted realization by Valentino Barachini. Poems by Matilde Vittoria