DREAMING ABOUT A DIFFERENT CITY

Here you can see a series of pictures of some of the most famous icons of Rome. Unfortunately, a postcard evoke a static representations of reality, a sterile hackneyed transfiguration of what it is like living in a big and complex city. What does it mean for citizens to face a city that merges historical sites with daily traffic jam? How conjugate its unique features with the daily boring routine, difficult mobility, diffuse dirt, increase criminality rates? On this project I have tried to break the balance inside images that are commonly recognized as being fake representations of Rome, unable to convey the real essence of the city. By removing parts of the postcard and substituting them with extra materials, or just overlapping figures in the form of light through masks or shadows, I have tried to alter the sterility of it, to give life back to an otherwise 'dead' place. A big "light bird", fragments of sky in the form of puzzle tiles, black birds hold by the master hand of a puppet animator, are just provocations that should quake our tamed look and think positively of the future of our cities.