Roma Subalterna

“The publication Roma Subalterna is an anti-triumphal anti-guide, a critical and anti-hierarchical vademecum inspired by various models of sub-investigation of the urban environment to observe and photograph a decolonized and deconstructed Rome. By reconsidering the Roman photographic campaign and the concept of photo-stability, itinerant meetings were organized with guide-mediators who served as cultural helmsmen inspired by a particular attitude. [...]

The photographs propose different ways of traversing the urban field from a subordinate and liminal perspective, experimenting with various anti-perspectives: the resonance fields and sensitivities of non-refractory artifacts, the museographic fragility of objects and artifacts de-territorialized by colonial conquest; the piercing amnesia of the narrative of the void left by the erased memory of the deposed imperial Urbe.”

Project curated by Viaindustriae and Stefano Graziani.
Powered by Master IUAV in Photography and in collaboration with Museum of Civilization and Mororoma collection in Rome.