“The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps…”
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Londinium
Londinium is an intimate project that reflects on my identity starting from a wider cultural inheritance. The absence of human presence creates a surreal atmosphere, where clean lines and juxtapositions of perspective plans are just tools to show the real protagonist: history and the importance that has in our cultural and personal identity. In a more than ever fluid society this project wants to underline the interdependence of past and present. Influenced by Calvino’s masterpiece Invisible cities, the Italian surrealism of Giorgio de Chirico and the photography of Gabriele Basilico, this project tries to play with the eyes of the observer and induce a reflection on what is history and how it can speak to us in our daily life.