Venice is another world
Alessandra Chemollo

Name: Venice is another world
Start: 2023-03-29 00:00:00
End: 2023-08-06 00:00:00
Location: The Photography Rooms

The Photography Rooms

Venice, Veneto, Italy

The show

Starting with the volume published by Marsilio Arte, the unpublished exhibition "Venice alter mundus" presents 65 photographs by Alessandra Chemollo, set up on the first floor of Le Stanze della Fotografia, offering a peculiar vision of the most photographed city in the world, suspended between past and future .

For over twenty years the favorite subject of Chemollo's lens, Venice has been transformed into an alter mundus, visited and recounted over the centuries by famous travellers. Another world, in which it is necessary to move with caution, avoiding being captured by an image that seems familiar to us only because we secretly hope it will help us sustain the power of this foreign city. Images in a tight narrative sequence, which don't want to be commented on, which don't seek explanations, but which connect to other worlds. As Franco Rella observes in the volume of the same name, «the images that Alessandra Chemollo has traced and put into a plot, into a story, are born from the real attempt to go in search of another world, alter mundus. To do this, he has not only followed the profiles of the stupendous buildings, monuments and houses he presents to us; he has not only followed the water in which the columns sink or are reflected, but he has tried to empty Venice of everything that constitutes it today but above all that masks it. Your Venice has no pigeons, no seagulls, no tourists. We cannot consider the figures that move tiny, almost an ornamental decoration, in a photograph of the square in front of the Procuratie Nuove as such».