The Farnesina Collection welcomes a new work, Le tre chiese (2011) by Silvia Camporesi (Forlì, 1973).
The triptych is part of the photographer and artist’s La Terza Venezia (2011) series, in which she alternates glimpses of the real with scale miniatures of Italy’s lagoon city. Camporesi chose one of the winter months to portray the city, empty of tourists, through the filter of her imagination. The work depicts a synaesthetic representation of a “new” city, enveloped in mist and silence in a rarefied and dreamlike atmosphere.
In the panorama of Italian photography, Silvia Camporesi is distinguished by conceptual studies that range from myth to literature, religion to real life, and to the Italian landscape, whether real or imaginary.
In 2015 she published a photography book entitled Atlas Italiae. Through its collection of images of abandoned marvels throughout the Italian peninsula (uninhabited villages, ruins, decommissioned factories), she created a idealised map of the heritage of abandonment or of “faded wonders”.
