Farewell to Turin
"Farewell to Turin" - January – March 2023
Photographic Installation
Turin
Saluto a Torino is a ritual of farewell to a city that I inhabited for several years. The walks that make up this project do not evoke a past time but rather an unfinished, never-lived one. It is an attempt to explore, by walking through carefully selected areas on the city's map, the limits of my understanding of its landscape — what still eluded me or, conversely, the recurring elements to which I had become emotionally attached.
Saluto a Torino is comprised of five walks, undertaken between January and March 2023, and documented through photography, as well as a process of tracking and geolocating both the images and the routes.
Each walk is contained within a cardboard archive, shaped to resemble one of the most iconic architectural features of the explored locations. Inside the archive, which functions like a filing system, are twenty cards. On the front of each card is a geolocated photograph, accompanied by the corresponding coordinates and technical details of the route; on the reverse, a fragment of the map of the walk can be reconstructed by aligning all the cards in the archive.
The five archive-houses are intended to be arranged according to their respective coordinates, forming an interconnected network of spaces yet to be fully discovered. The viewer is invited to open the filing system and, by piecing together photograph after photograph, fragment after fragment, reconstruct the map of Turin as it was traversed. Through this process, they may either find themselves reconnected to the city or discover themselves entirely estranged from it.
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Farewell to Turin
"Farewell to Turin" - January – March 2023
Photographic Installation
Turin
Saluto a Torino is a ritual of farewell to a city that I inhabited for several years. The walks that make up this project do not evoke a past time but rather an unfinished, never-lived one. It is an attempt to explore, by walking through carefully selected areas on the city's map, the limits of my understanding of its landscape — what still eluded me or, conversely, the recurring elements to which I had become emotionally attached.
Saluto a Torino is comprised of five walks, undertaken between January and March 2023, and documented through photography, as well as a process of tracking and geolocating both the images and the routes.
Each walk is contained within a cardboard archive, shaped to resemble one of the most iconic architectural features of the explored locations. Inside the archive, which functions like a filing system, are twenty cards. On the front of each card is a geolocated photograph, accompanied by the corresponding coordinates and technical details of the route; on the reverse, a fragment of the map of the walk can be reconstructed by aligning all the cards in the archive.
The five archive-houses are intended to be arranged according to their respective coordinates, forming an interconnected network of spaces yet to be fully discovered. The viewer is invited to open the filing system and, by piecing together photograph after photograph, fragment after fragment, reconstruct the map of Turin as it was traversed. Through this process, they may either find themselves reconnected to the city or discover themselves entirely estranged from it.