The photographic project hosted by the Luciana Matalon Foundation from 26 March to 23 April 2022 presented the works that Nello and Gianmarco Taietti shoot in the community and around Lula
The exhibition returns the character and everyday life of a territory with strong roots that, despite many difficulties, is projected energetically towards the future.
Murale dedicato a Lenin (2019) by Nello TaiettiFondazione Luciana Matalon
Of these places, Nello knows every brick and on this occasion he shared his knowledge with his son Gianmarco, a passionate traveller. Each one made his own images and placed them in dialogue with those of the other, emphasizing the intensity of the encounter with the territory, so true and so strong.
The need to communicate this encounter to the world is felt, even though in expressively different ways, by both photographers
Nello chooses to give an account of it through portraits and black and white photography, as if to be in line with the photographic documentation already existing from the early twentieth century.
Giovanna Sale, ragazza di Lula con antico abito tradizionale. (2019) by Gianmarco TaiettiFondazione Luciana Matalon
Gianmarco prefers to adopt a street photographer approach by portraying the town everyday life in all its spontaneity.
Lula’s identity and history are so strong that the step from personal diary to anthropological story is short: the photographic collection becomes a narration of a place, of its people and its culture.
Curators Mariangela Dui writes
"Nello and Gianmarco Taietti’s shots explore what is called, with a neologism 'paesitude' , that capacity of resistance and resilience of some small communities, that allows them to survive by focusing on their roots to orient themselves in the contemporary world".
