ALMA BIBOLOTTI
             PHOTOGRAPHY 

"This city takes one's breath away in every weather, the variety of which, at any rate, is somewhat limited. And if we are indeed partly synonymous with water, which is fully synonymous with time, then one's sentiment toward this place improves the future, contributes to that Adriatic or Atlantic of time which stores our reflections for when we are long gone." J. Brodsky

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Walking far from the places over-consumed by tourists, my challenge was to seek the unseen Venice. The small details I collected on walls, doors, canals edges, the material elements such as the rust, the plaster covering affected by salt or the doors peeling off,  like wounds and scars, become metaphors of the loss. Through these muted colours fragments, I aim to show glimpses of something hidden from view, the surreal and feminine soul of the city and tell the threat hanging over Venice fragile and precious memory.

Today Venice risks to lose its soul and the memory of its diversity, crushed in the mono-cultural mill of standardised entertainment. 1000 residents leave Venice every year and Venetians have begun to live in the memory of their own city. As the art historian Settis reminds us, the city risks to become an empty shell, “a city that does not exist”. Venice may die of amnesia and if Venice dies, "(...) self-forgetfulness will be the only thing to blame."

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