2012
Mixed media photo performance by Marta Lodola, Milan Corso Como, Garibaldi.
Event POLITIKACTION, Il sistema e la crisi, Di.st.urb Arte Scafati, curated by Stefano Taccone, Naples
Gentrification is a consuming process that reflects at social level through the impoverishment of the individual’s awareness of living places. Individuals who are increasingly separated within the urban social environment interact with places that no longer belong to anyone and no longer belong to their sociality.
The memory crisis is the effect of living in an urban environment, where construction sites are constantly erasing the places of our memories. Thus a denaturalization of our lives takes place, at the mercy of an economic mechanism that does not support us but rather engulfs us in its own mechanisms.
The body here seems to be an abstract concept that perfectly fits with skyscrapers and construction sites. Loosing its human power, it disappears into a metropolitan landscape.
self-timer photography Marta Lodola