BORDERS

The brilliant and irreverent gaze of English photographer Paul Graham delivers to the new European and American generations a handbook of images of the themes they will face, outlining – through affinities and differences – the complex dividing line that runs along the two shores of the Western world.

Twelve stops, from Troy to Ithaca, retracing the route of Ulysses: in 2012 Italian photographer Stefano De Luigi traveled for months following the wanderings by sea and land of the Homeric hero, retracing his journey through the use of the most contemporary of tools, a smartphone.

Walking as an aesthetic practice: the artist gives an intimate and poetic description of a city that manifests its most secret nature, echoing ancient civilizations. Rovaldi’s photographs tell of trees and open spaces, of objects abandoned on the ground, of immense uncultivated lawns, of concrete showing the signs of time, of fragments of torn paper, tar, brick walls, metal nets, and again signs, signs everywhere.

Cosa hanno visto che noi non potremmo vedere? Ogni scatto e singola parola di Caimi&Piccinni, Simone Cargnoni, Francesco Faraci, Francesco Malavolta e Alessandro Penso appare come tassello di un puzzle di inenarrabile geografia, in cui confini, limiti, barriere e distanze assumono un valore nuovo insieme a una distorsione generata da processi storici che si abbattono su milioni di persone inermi.

Mari Katayama overcomes the boundary between human and post-human, that is the limit between the body we have and what happens outside of it. She uses her body as a field of experimentation.