Ettore Moni has traced the geography of Suburbia, this expanded place that exists in a specific form in the various cities where it appears and seems to bring with it invariable characteristics that ignore the specific nature of the different places. His pictures express an alienating coexistence of vastness and constriction, expansion and crowding, and a jumble of forms that, at times, trample or clamber over one another while, at others, they face up to each other as if in a challenge for control of the area. This is a crucial challenge faced by photographers: to make their pictures speak and offer a possible reading of these places rather than merely reiterating their presence via the photographic medium.

Ettore Moni has accepted this challenge in a both light-hearted and profound manner, offering photographs in which the analytical vision of an area’s fragments, shaped and at times imprisoned, coexists with the sincere amazement at what lies before the gaze. This fusion of awareness and genuine bewilderment means that his are indeed questions in image form, questions that build up photograph after photograph, inviting us to never stop asking ourselves how cities change and grow – as if they had forgotten we were living in them.