Venice disappearance

Inanimate and alone. So it appears Venice, portrayed by Simona Paleari for the exhibition organized by the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa to reflect on the changes of the most extraordinary city of water in the world. A look, that of the milanese photographer, sometimes disenchanted and detached and thus very intuitive. Paleari refuses to be seduced by Venice and take us, with her images, into a “cleared” landscape where a sense of nostalgia silently slips between the counters of the Marciana Library, on the sands of the Lido, on surface of the canals and inside the vaporetto (venetian motorboat). It is a vacuum that is paradoxically at odds with the fleets full of tourists that fill the Venetian calli (venetian streets) unaware of the tragedy that every day is consumed on a city that slowly is disappearing along with its inhabitants.

Photo:

© Courtesy of Simona Paleari

www.simonapaleari.com

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