Il senso dei luoghi
19.6 – 3.7.2022

Works of
Alessandra Barzi, Giulio Secco, Fabio Fedrigo, Marcello Marotto, Maria Conte

Curated by
Steve Bisson

Orari
Sunday 4:30pm–7:30pm

As part of its educational mission, Lab27 inaugurates on June 19 at 5:00 PM the exhibition "Il senso dei luoghi", featuring the work of participants in its semester-long photography course.

The five projects on display reflect different ways of engaging with the landscape through the photographic medium. Alessandra Barzi presents an exploratory fairy tale set in the garden city of Marghera. Little known except for its port and petrochemical industry, Barzi’s Marghera reveals a kaleidoscope of colors, lights, and shapes that overturn the flat, anonymous industrial imagery typically associated with the area. Giulio Secco’s photographs offer a series of intimate impressions developed during frequent walks through the Treviso countryside—winter paths of water, trees, agricultural textures, and scattered settlements—evoking serene curiosity, a peaceful surrender, and essential quiet.

Marcello Marotto, in contrast, collects portraits that testify to the weathered faces of rural civilization. These are old, abandoned farm buildings and forgotten words, suspended like abstract memories and restored with a statuary dignity that seems to freeze their meaning. Maria Conte, on the other hand, projects her gaze forward, asking questions in a different way. The bucolic image of the gentle Prosecco hills is pierced by the thunder of hail cannons—alien, mechanical figures revealing contradictions. The land, drowned by an economy that clones itself, devours wooded slopes, erases diversity, and curses the sky in a deafening language.

Finally, Fabio Fedrigo’s posthumous landscape takes shape from bitter realizations and gentle consolations experienced during pandemic confinement—a frantic stumbling through urban debris and spatial misunderstandings. It forms a visual lexicon of obstacles through which to reinterpret the disorientation of the North-East and a sense of progress that conceals exhaustion.