Real Albergo dei Poveri, Napoli. Opera n° 16

The Bourbon Hospice for the Poor was designed by the architect Ferdinando Fuga in 1751 at the request of Charles III, King of Naples, but was never completed. Charles III intended the building to become a royal shelter for eight thousand poor people in the kingdom and to serve as a prison, reformatory and re-education facility.
In 1999, Mimmo Jodice explored this extraordinary piece of architecture and brought out the traces of the past, the misery, the human experiences back to life. “White” like the light, the principal protagonist, which sneaks into every corner, exposing the past, present and future of the “factory”. “Black” like the colour of human misery, the colour of desperation.