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The Absence is a photographic project created by Attilio Solzi over the course of a year. For 365 days, the artist documented daily a specific spot in the province of Cremona where prostitution activities took place. The subject of these images is an empty chair: its shifting position and the changing vegetation surrounding it serve as markers of time.
The absence captured by Solzi, executed with awareness and technical precision, offers a visual reflection of what we cannot or choose not to see. Through The Absence, our gaze is subtly guided—if not compelled—to confront this hidden reality: the chair becomes a silent witness to individuals on society’s margins, driven by illegality and clandestinity, persons lacking any form of protection.
With his intimate and attentive perspective, Attilio Solzi documents these realities and their inhabitants. A silent sequence unfolds that profoundly disturbs and moves the viewer.
Attilio Solzi (Soresina, 1962), is an Italian artist whose practice is focused on photography and on the different representations of the body, preferring a grotesque and playful gaze. Solzi uses monstly the book form for the realization of his projects: between 2022 and 2016 he publishes with many publishing houses like 89 books, Everyedition, Salt n Pepper, Paranoia, Studio Bibliografico L’Argentario, Samopal Books, Les Crocs Electrique, Void. The Absence book won the Premio Marco Bastianelli for the best photographic book published in 2021.
The exibition is presented on the conjunction with FestivalFilosofia2022.
The Absence
From 16 September to 28 October 2022
Metronom, Via carteria 10, 41121, Modena
