Roma Subalterna
A project on the collection of the former italian museum of colonies, part of a collective book and exhibition.
Roma Subalterna investigates the utopia of drafting a guide to Rome. Beginning with colonial echoes, the image of the great city consists of particles, subalterns, autonomies, social forms and architectures.
The research feeds on unpublished bibliographies, out of editorial models such as the capital’s rionali guides or adventure diaries on urban suburbs in the 1990s.
Thinking of the term “subaltern” as a condition and experience, and not as a category, is the means to trigger a process that leads to a possibility of decolonizing the gaze.
Project made during the IUAV Master in Photography under the supervision of Emanuele De Donno and Stefano Graziani, in collaboration with MuCiv and ICCD.
Collective exhibition curated by Emanuele De Donno and Stefano Graziani at MuCiv, Rome, on 5th May 2022.
Collective book curated by Emanuele De Donno, Stefano Graziani, Alice Mazzarella and Marta Tonelli.
Texts by Caterina Borrelli, Gaia Delpino, Rosa Anna Di Lella, Peter Lang, Francesca Recchia, Benedetta Cestelli Guidi and Martina Alessandrini.
Graphic design by Roberto Capozucca.
Exhibition photographs: Simon Oberhofer
Book photographs: Luigi Chiapolino
