Roma, Città di Mezzo, 2009
Guy Tillim’s Roma, Città di Mezzo was commissioned for FotoGrafia, the international photography festival of Rome, running from 29 May to 2 August 2009.
“Guy Tillim seeks a non-monumental Rome, a continuation of his previous project, Avenue Patrice Lumumba, which arrives here with him. Africa is a gargantuan concept, as Ryszard Kapuscinski mentioned in a conversation when he participated in the first edition of FotoGrafia, and Africa is in Tillim’s mind and eyes as he embarks on this project away from Africa. Tillim seeks the middle city, the middle light (the rainiest winter in years is a privilege for him); he seeks an idea born out of his extended watching of neo-realist cinema, which he re-elaborates in the field. In this middle city, the most complex thing is scale: how near, how far? Much lies in this strong tension of the quest for scale in the middle city, a city where Tillim is alone, free to think, to approach and to move away…” (Marco Delogu)
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