Interno Zoo
by Christian Pardini
portfolio special mention call 'Urbanautica Institute Awards 2025', 2025
Category: Representations of Space, Architecture, and Conflicts
These photographs originate from a summer traversal of the Rome Zoological Garden. In a slowed-down time marked by a reduced human presence, the focus shifts to spaces, empty enclosures, pathways, and marginal areas of the park. The absence of animals and people is a deliberate choice, removing the expected subject to observe the zoo as a spatial and narrative dispositif. Fences, barriers, viewing points, and guided paths emerge as central elements, revealing the forms of control that organize space and regulate vision. The images portray a suspended place where architecture, nature, and silence make latent tensions and invisible relations perceptible.