MU522
Photographic Book "105 x 148 mm"
2026

Exhibited at Arte Fiera 49 EDITION, Bologna

This photographic series is constructed around a specific moment of air travel: the landing. The images focus on the aircraft’s wheels, on lights, and on the lines that guide its movement once it has touched the ground. The seemingly technical gesture of landing becomes here a field of reflection on orientation, distance, and memory.

The ground ceases to function as a mere support and instead becomes a guiding device. Traced lines, embedded runway lights, and predefined paths configure a visual language that prescribes the movement of the body. In this context, orientation does not mean choosing a path, but adhering to a sequence of instructions already laid out. Orientation thus manifests as an act of obedience: following a signal, trusting an external direction, advancing toward a promised destination.

However, the path does not lead to an identifiable place. Arrival stretches, suspends itself, and transforms into a continuous state of transit. Landing, traditionally understood as the conclusion of a journey, reveals itself instead as the entry into a further system of control, in which movement continues to be regulated and monitored. The airport thus emerges as a space of extreme orientation.

The wheels become the main character of the narrative, shifting the experience of travel from the human body to the mechanical body. There are no passengers, faces, or gestures—only a mechanism that follows lines, repeats trajectories, and records contact with the ground without generating memory. Repetition replaces recollection, and movement turns into an involuntary choreography. The ground neither welcomes nor contains: it corrects, directs, and administers movement.

Through this series, orientation appears as a promise that is never fully fulfilled. The images invite the viewer to visually follow the lines, to trust their direction, only to then confront the impossibility of a clear arrival. Disorientation does not arise from chaos, but from an excess of guidance. In this sense, the project proposes a reflection on non-destination as a contemporary condition: a state in which one is constantly moving forward without the path producing belonging, rootedness, or memory.