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On the Italian Emilia Romagna coast there are 7 lighthouses. These became the focus for 7 photographs, which depict the lighthouses as if they were totemic sculptures in an evocative nocturnal atmosphere.

The photographs, which can be lit or not, represent different ways of seeing a single object. Given its highly symbolic and therefore almost untouchable nature, the lighthouse gave me the freedom to work with the surface. The way we treat the surface changes our perceptions and emphasizes the differences between structure and light, photography (not lit) and painting (lit).

The 7 lighthouses represent a frontier, a symbolic boundary between a non-place (the sea) and a place (land) - a safe zone between two mediums. The safe zone, however, is ambiguous - on the one hand it is synonymous with seeing and finding hope and security. On the other hand, it is the way that we look at things that gives us stability.

The light-box series "safe zone" and the video "within the traces" were presented as a specific project for the art fair "The Others fair", which was located in a prison cell of a former prison in Turin, Italy. This setting completed the work.