Andrea Martino’s Topografie Flegree takes us into a territory where different layers of time coexist and overlap, making it difficult to draw a clear distinction between what belongs to the past and what defines the present. Across the landscapes of Bacoli, Pozzuoli, and Monte di Procida, history, nature, and human intervention have left successive traces, shaping a complex environment in which every transformation builds upon what already exists.

Martino focuses on ordinary and marginal areas, transitional spaces where urban, rural, and peri-urban environments intersect without ever reaching a definitive balance. It is precisely within these fragmented spaces that the landscape reveals its layered nature: not merely a surface to be observed, but an accumulation of material and cultural sediments, reflecting an ongoing interplay between permanence and change.

The images thus form a visual map that does more than document the territory; they invite us to question and interpret it. The viewer is encouraged to recognise the simultaneous presence of different temporalities and to read the traces of distinct historical periods as parts of a single, ongoing process.

Time expands, losing its linearity: past and present do not simply follow one another, but coexist, shape one another, and are continually redefined. Topografie Flegree reminds us that inhabiting a landscape means living within this continuity, contributing each day to the formation of its future layers.