TITLE: Vertigo

Transitory spaces, spaces where the world with its rules ends.
Intermittent spaces, broken and discontinuous spaces that rapidly decompose and recompose, slippery spaces, distorted spaces. Spaces of interdiction to reject and isolate.
These are places that lose their function of welcoming, containing, protecting, and beyond which it is impossible to go. Restless places, on the border between reality and illusion.
Extreme, ambiguous and alienating places, altered, artificial places. Places of disorientation, soulless places, places that challenge common knowledge and perception.
Places of empty freedom, devoid of reference points.

Will it be possible for man, in his faltering escape, to put aside his individual will to power which will lead to self-destruction?
Will he be able to stand in front of himself and recognize his own imperfection, tolerate gray areas and experience his limits in a dynamic, open way?
Will he be able to find a place that can be defined as "final", where to implement a radical transformation of one's identity, to recompose a social conscience and realize a project of shared experience?

Rome, Exteriors of Tiburtina Station 2022

AUTHOR: Maria Laura Borgognoni (Italy)

Born in 1979 in a family of artists, I live and work in Italy.
Graduated in architecture, but with an eclectic nature and great passion for the arts which allowed me to train and work also as a graphic designer, light designer, dancer and choreographer. I’m approached photography many years ago starting with an analog camera.

The space-time decontextualization and abstraction, the search for rhythm in the subjects represented are the fulcrum of my photographic work, which derives from a dynamic approach to space, in which reorganization and reinterpretation processes come into play. Photography allows me to show a different dimension, where the impression of reality can merge with a dream projection, connecting more with the emotional sphere than the rational or narrative one.