This project began in 2006, when the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Cultural Activities selected me to create a portrait of the Italian state from the point of view of architecture. I suggested using photographs to depict the plans of several government agencies located in various historical buildings in Rome, thereby both documenting them and exploring the characteristics of these representative spaces used for the daily performance of work functions and ceremonial. The result is a program of mainly artistic installations, which serves as a reason for political reflection.

The Duma. Moscow
2011
Photo with a roll on alu-dibond
50 × 60 cm

This project began in 2006, when the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Cultural Activities selected me to create a portrait of the Italian state from the point of view of architecture. I suggested using photographs to depict the plans of several government agencies located in various historical buildings in Rome, thereby both documenting them and exploring the characteristics of these representative spaces used for the daily performance of work functions and ceremonial. The result is a program of mainly artistic installations, which serves as a reason for political reflection.

In the Russian Spatiographies project, photographs of government institutions are complemented by a series of works taken at different times on Baikonur and Nadym. Government meeting rooms are mirrored in desert landscapes: places of concentration of power are gradually disappearing into landscapes — an empty spaceport, a destroyed factory and exhibition halls that are no longer used for their intended purpose.

A vast country with a century-old history is swallowed up by its own emptiness, where human presence is indicated by absence, and the contrast between golden interiors and parched fields, between managers and performers, paints the image of Russia, suspended between the past and the future.