Naples, 12 photographers chronicle the emptiness and suspension of routine at the time of lockdown

At the Villa Pignatelli House of Photography in Naples opens to the public from July 15 to Sept. 18, 2022, the exhibition Italia In-attesa. 12 Photographic Tales, a project promoted by the Ministry of Culture and implemented by the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity and the Central Institute for Catalogue and Documentation, in collaboration with the Campania Regional Museums Directorate and the Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortés Museum. Curated by Margherita Guccione and Carlo Birrozzi and exhibited for the first time in 2021 in the rooms of Palazzo Barberini - Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica in Rome, the project now arrives in Naples, with an installation desired by Marta Ragozzino. Also in the Neapolitan setting, the exhibition presents works commissioned from Italian photographers of different age, genre and language, as part of a broad research dedicated to the creation of a visual archive of Italy during the pandemic.

Selected by a Scientific Committee chaired by Margherita Guccione, the photographers created projects aimed at recounting the emptiness and suspension in ordinary life during the lockdown period.

Olivo Barbieri, Antonio Biasiucci, Silvia Camporesi, Mario Cresci, Paola De Pietri, Ilaria Ferretti, Guido Guidi, Andrea Jemolo, Francesco Jodice, Allegra Martin, Walter Niedermayr, and George Tatge-these are the twelve photographers chosen-entered into the heart of a complex game, a story of unease that confronted us with some of the most complex existential questions of the present time.

More than one hundred photographs are exhibited along a path conceived by Alessandro Demma, which winds its way through the eight rooms on the second floor of Villa Pignatelli, in a continuous dialogue between history and current events, architecture and photography, tradition and experimentation.

A choral and polyphonic tale in images of the situation experienced during the darkest months of the health crisis. The expectation of a new time, the hope of a vision capable of overcoming the dilated, infinite and empty time, the need to rediscover the landscape, nature, architecture, public spaces, works of art, common objects never seen before from the unexpected gazes of twelve Italian photographers, who have immortalized in their shots the “duration,” understood as the space in which the self lives the present and in the present, with the memory of the past and the anticipation of the future.

The images and photographs produced for Italia In-attesa are part of the collections of the Central Institute for Catalogue and Documentation and have been included within a fund dedicated to documenting the country during the difficult months of the health emergency.

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Image: Andrea Jemolo, A Silent Tale, The Villa (Rome, 2020)

Naples, 12 photographers chronicle the emptiness and suspension of routine at the time of lockdown

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