Sleeping Towns

Lara Bacchiega’s lens captures Bibione, a seaside town on the Adriatic Coast, during the winter season, when it becomes a dormant, suspended town until next summer.

Lara Bacchiega, <i>Sleeping Towns</i>
With her project Slleping Towns, Lara Bacchiega analyzes the concept of “non-place”.
Considering the definition provided by the French anthropologist Marc Augé in 1992 as a starting point, the concept is applied to the contemporary landscape, recognizing in particular the seaside town of Bibione, in the province of Venice, as the appropriate area of research for this investigation.
Lara Bacchiega, <i>Sleeping Towns</i>
Lara Bacchiega, Sleeping Towns

Bibione is considered in the sense of large non-place as a place of transition, frequented by masses in the summer season while suspended and empty during the winter months, to the point of assuming the aspect of a ghost town.

The work highlights some of the features identified by Augé about these particular spaces, as their standardization and uniformity, their anonymity, their being untied from the context they physically occupy and their nature of a not-truly-lived environment: these places are seen just temporarily, without a real awareness.


Lara Bacchiega
(1989) graduated in 2014 in Visual and Performing Arts at the IUAV University, in Venice. In the same year she was selected to attend the 98th Young Artists Collective at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice.

Her photographs focus on the relationship between landscape and human intervention, focusing on places without historical or artistic interest, which may appear trivial but that can fully portray the contemporary world.

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