Alessandro Quaranta
2023.
Italy.
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6’
What happens when a place is abandoned by humans?
Thereby, where for a long time there have been temporary settlements of marginalised, rejected, undocumented communities in tents or dilapidated dwellings made from the waste materials of our welfare civilisation, when they are forcibly displaced, it is nature that takes their place.
Here, the gaze moves in a forest on the outskirts of a city, which grew up where only twenty years earlier there was a Roma camp.
Only at nightfall is it possible to glimpse the testimonies of these tenures, which emerge as remnants one cannot retain, like absurd intuitions that disappear as soon as one thinks have understood them.
