“Roma Subalterna” expresses the desire to build a relationship between distant, historical echoes and the contemporary urban landscape. Photography as a tool of vision and knowledge allows us to grasp and incorporate the subaltern as a condition and experience, and not as a category, to trigger a process of decolonisation of the gaze.

The publication produced is an anti-guide and, rather like a observational fanzine, deconstructs the format of the traditional photo-book by interspersing the photographic projects in an unbound, reconfigurable package.
The photographs of fifteen photographers tell different ways of traversing the urban field according to a subaltern and liminal vision, testing different anti-perspectives: the resonance fields and sensitivities of non-refractory artefacts; the museographic fragilities of objects and findings deterritorialised by colonial conquest and occupations; the peripheral and natural cultural echoes; the excruciating amnesia of the narrative of the memory void of the deposed imperial Urbe.

Project realised within the Master in Photography of the IUAV University, Venice.

In collaboration with
ICCD - Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione, Rome
MUCIV - Museo delle Civiltà, Roma
Viaindustriae

With contributions from
Caterina Borrelli, Itinerario Memoria Necessaria
Gaia Delpino, Rosa Anna Di Lella
Peter Lang, R-lab NA
Francesca Recchia, Multiplicity e Stalker/Osservatorio Nomade
Benedetta Cestelli Guidi
Martina Alessandrini

Curated by
Emanuele De Donno
Stefano Graziani
Amedeo Martegani
Alice Mazzarella
Marta Tonelli

Graphic Design
Roberto Capozucca

First edition of 35 copies

Exhibition photographs: Simon Oberhofer
Book photographs: Luigi Chiapolino