A surreal city where it seems that everyone fled away.
Giorgio Colonna's work portrays a disturbing Venice, suspended between the desire to relive and that of being left forever. A Venice that speaks with silence but lets its images talk.
The deserted alleys, the still reflections on the water, the peeling walls steeped in history: what have these spaces, these stately buildings and these council houses seen over the 1603 years of the city's life? What secret do they hide?
Their silence leaves us stunned. Giorgio Colonna's photographs do not offer us easy answers; rather, they invite us to ask ourselves questions, to question ourselves on the meaning of what we see.
Will the Genius Loci agree with this modern vision of Venice? Or was it who orchestrated the disappearance of everyone, good and bad, swept away by the H-bomb of mass tourism, suffocating and homogenizing?
Whatever the answer, Giorgio Colonna wants to show us a Venice that will never die. A Venice that will continue to live, playing hide and seek and making fun of those who pass by distractedly, without knowing its secrets, unable to perceive the echo of the centuries that still resonates among its stones.