HOME
by Giancarlo Pradelli
portfolio special mention call 'URBANAUTICA INSTITUTE AWARDS 2020', 2020
Category: Anthropology and Territories
In Italy, in the plain of the Emilian landscape, uninhabited houses survive, reduced to ruins, the last witnesses of a peasant civilization, now extinct. With the disappearance of the generation of people born before the Great War, their homes were gradually abandoned, becoming 'nobody's homes', or at most used as tool sheds. They are scattered houses, large barns, still in the countryside, as if they were frozen in time, which, without anyone noticing, continues its inexorable process. Eliminating all nostalgic nuances, I observed them in their silent, almost dramatic solitude, capturing the beauty of their shapes through an analogue black and white, capable of highlighting their signs, fractures and wear. In the seriality of the images the skeletal forms reveal their singularity, with solutions and architectural details transformed by the state of abandonment.
The uploaded images are part of a book "Home" published in 2012 by Fivecontinentseditions and were taken between 2006 and 2012.