The Collared Dove Sound is a book about an exhibition that intermingles the biographies of two artists: Giorgio Falco, a writer, and Sabrina Ragucci, a photographer. In 2009, Falco published (with Einaudi) one of the finest Italian novels of recent times, entitled L'ubicazione del bene — a tangle of lives and actions centred on Cortesforza, an imaginary Gated Community in the ultra-urban Milanese hinterland that is no longer the countryside, but not yet the city. Ragucci has a long tradition of working with the Linea di Confine cultural association and has developed an original approach for an Italian photographer, which she consolidates with this work.
The Collared Dove "lives alone or in pairs but hardly ever in groups, on trees, lamp-posts, the roofs of houses, wooden beams and sheds" (Ragucci). Its song provides the laconic background music to the pictures and the words of Giorgio Falco's story, contained in the catalogue and featuring some characters first seen in L'ubicazione del bene. Falco's words and Ragucci's photographs do not overlap but remain two clearly distinguishable artistic and research paths.
This is the contemporary city to all effects, that magma of houses, apartment buildings, sheds, parts of rediscovered rural buildings, interchanges, hedges and car parks
