‘On Gestures of Doing Nothing’ documents a performance staged by Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen that took place over the cours of several days in their exhibition ‘The Floor is Lava’ in Marres in Maastricht. It consisted of eleven performers presenting a series of gestures. The performance – along with the exhibition itself – was […]

F.E.R.V.E.T., an acronym for Fabbricazione E Riparazione Vagoni E Tramway (Manufacturing and Repairing Wagons and Tramways), was a railway manufacturing company established in Bergamo in 1907. Activity in the Castelfranco Veneto plant started the following year, with orders for the repair, overhaul, modernization and conversion of train wagons and railway carriages. During the 90’s crisis, […]

Each projection contains several chapters derived from the immense F.E.R.V.E.T archive with documents from 1907 till 2011, photographic images varying from burnt-out wrecks, overhauled wagons, daily life at the factory, staff parties, the archives themselves e.g.. Accompanied is a sound work, where the owner of the local ‘dopo lavoro’ bar (translated ‘after work’) situated next […]

In October 9th, 1963, almost 2000 people died in the Vajont catastrophe, due to a landslide followed by the dam flooding. Inhabitants of Erto e Casso, small settlements overlooking the Vajont lake, watched the tragedy happen in front of them. Although mostly unharmed, authorities forced them to evacuate the area day after the tragedy, making […]

‘Ramya’ was commenced in 2002, when the photographer moved into Ramya’s house and used the camera as a means of communication. The the long-term project was resumed and completed after Rayma’s death in 2014, when Ramya’s private archive took Stavast to the remains of a former commune set by followers of the Bhagwan (Osho) in […]