In the complexity of these particular Italian territories we can recognize and classify specimens, dividing reality into taxonomies. This process allow us to mitigate the conflict between rules and chaos and to understand the transformation of the landscape.
Traveling along Via Emilia Barbra Rossi leaves out city centers in favor of suburban areas, the ones apparently devoid of a common logic where people seems to claim a right of creative and free expression that modify the landscape.
The choice of a fontal representation of subjects and the use of a perspective that repeats itself is necessary in order to maintain a proper objectivity of this shared reality. SS9 describes a fragmented landscape, result of a trip back-and-forth (between Rimini and Milano) undertaken not only with the aim to describe landscape’s “life cycle”, but also to trigger questions, reflections and future projects.
Barbara Rossi was born in Parma in 1988 and began her artistic research on contemporary city in the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. She continued her studies at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, where she lives and works. Her photographic production moves between the documentation of contemporary urban transformations and the search of the traces left by man on the landscape. She is currently involved in projects that investigate the large-scale construction of Rome.