Variazioni sul Silenzio (“Variations on silence”) was a student project made during Mauro Bubbico’s class at ISIA of Urbino, Italy, academic year 2019/2020.
The project is a study on Italy’s abandoned places which proposes an alternative perspective on the fetishist gaze often cast upon ruins. Images of these places taken from Google Maps, “god’s eye” that records everything in a nonjudgmental way, establish a visual and conceptual dialogue with images that belong to the realms of myth and metaphorical narration: they create an imaginative weave that looks at abandoned ruins as a tale-maker live matter.