Habitat 1150

Habitat 1150 was born from the desire to tell the story of how the city of Venice, which had once reached its maximum splendor under the rule of the Serenissima, today finds itself exposed to defacement and corrosion brought about by wave motion, mass tourism and environmental crisis, due to indifference and antropic actions. The photographic research sheds light on these issues through the accumulation and “archiving” of objects collected on the Venice Lido waterfront, which highlight how the sea welcomes them by bringing them to a slow, but inexorable metamorphosis making them in the long run, an integral part of the underwater world, modifying and preserving them through its action. An ideal visual metaphor to demonstrate the action of brackish water on the fragile and defenseless foundations of the city. In the same way, Habitat 1150 accommodates within it the diversity of artifacts set adrift, creating an “underwater archive,” a spokesperson for the problems of pollution and anthropogenic actions that, with the passage of time, are morphologically modifying the Venetian lagoon territory, rapidly leading it to its decay.