Temporary dwellings

 

«The photographic project» tell us the architect Andrea Bosio describing his series Home Sweet Home «starts from the observation of the complex and rigid structure of the contemporary city. Each area has its function and every resident has his role within it. However, there are lacerations in this mesh, both in the urban and social level: it is precisely in these interstices of evanescent reality that some people find “self made” rescue footings. I am speaking of those people who by choice or for unrelated reasons find themselves without a real social position and homeless. Nearly transparent and strangers to the city, this people live in more or less marginal areas of the metropolis. The pavement is usually their bed, sometimes a bench… The most enterprising build their selves a refuge in the shade of the buildings between the spaces defined by the local urban planning. Paradoxical situations of the consumerist and globalized society: small huts built with recycled materials behind shopping centers or buildings symbolic buildings. I began to travel the city far and wide in search of these “parasites” realities that smoothly exploit the areas that the city has forgotten. I collected different images but as chance would have it the project took a new turn. Returning to the scene of previous shots, I ran in the ‘absence’ of the subjects: the sudden urban transformations has swept these areas, invading with yards or parkings the territories of illegal tenants and removing their houses.»

 

 

Photo:

© Courtesy of Andrea Bosio

www.andreabosio.com

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