40 km from Malta, 24 mai 1941, 2013
gelatin silver print, framed text on paper
The work, composed by an image and a text, is inspired by a diary where the soldier who wrote it tells about the shipwreck of the military boat where he was boarded during the italian invasion of Africa, during the Second World War. The image results from the overposition of different black and white photograph negatives of the sea. The text, taken by the diary, says: The sea was no longer water strech, it was an oil stretch and a single matchstick would have been enought to transform that limitless water stretch in an immense fire flame and we all would have burned in the middle of the sea.
Installation view at Ex Ospedale Sant’Agostino, Fondazione Fotografia, Modena