In an era in which we assist to a return of defense boundaries everywhere, against terrorism, immigrants, commerce, history remembers us that everything changes, through space and time. The cities we live in are constantly mutating organisms stratified during the centuries. That's particularly true for Rome, a city that more than others reveals the traces of its changes: the first defensive walls establishing an impassable limit nowadays go across the main railway station of the city, a symbol of connection and union, instead of separation. Remains of aqueducts and imperial terms are nowadays integrated into buildings. Inhabitants, often unaware, share their everyday lives with history, once solitary temples are now surrounded by urban traffic, wrecked watchtowers, claim their stubborn presence in the city suburb. Silent witnesses of a glorious past, overpowered during the day by urban chaos, which speak again at night to tell us their long stories and that everything changes.

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Vincenzo Labellarte (website)