For eight years I lived in a suburb, seventy kilometers from Rome, in Italy, whose fabric, once rural, has been altered so much by a recent urban development, to become a "hybrid". While there I lived, immersed in visionary stories, from time to time, I suspended my gaze on the window of my room, through which I contemplated the flow of the lives of others. For years I had been observing their appearance, imagining their microscopic texture beyond the lines of the boundaries that are visible to me. I had learned to recognize their moods through their steps, with their cries of pain, as well as their laughter, and also to distinguish them from the intensity with which they used to close the gate of their homes. I lived in a terraced house twinned to theirs, with dividing hedges, leashed dogs and cardboard walls.
“Order Restlessness” is the photographic account of my anthropological and social investigation, which involved those appearances long observed. My extraneousness, physical and identity to those places, led me to question myself about a territory and its inhabitants, some of whom answered my questions, making me part of their life, for years only imagined. From 2017 until now, I have spent a lot of time with them establishing an empathetic dialogue based on a similar diversity. I have portrayed them inside and outside their homes and in the places they frequent on a daily basis, such as public parks, cafés or sports centres. What they have in common is the sharing of the same peripheral space. Some of them have been my neighbours, others belong to the same family or are schoolmates, others still practice the same sport; others, on the other hand, do not know each other at all, but they meet every day, unconsciously, along the same roads.
