Angela Maria Antuono's Anthropological Photography at Galleria del Cortile, Rome

Angela Maria Antuono (born 1966 in Caianello) presents a solo exhibition at Galleria del Cortile in Rome, curated by Fabio Petrelli. Her black-and-white photography, influenced by Mario Giacomelli, Cecilia Mangini, and Annabella Rossi, documents the subaltern reality of Caianello, a marginal southern Italian town where ancient rites, myths, and cults persist. The images capture fragments of life—anonymous smiles of weary youth and elderly, women seated in sunlit cemeteries or at home before simulacra of grief. The sense of time in these photographs becomes perpetual waiting, a funereal otherness suspended in a melancholic interval of silent life. The complexity of black and white serves as a magnifying lens to fix pieces of past lives, placing the viewer in direct but slow contact, as if in a faded memory belonging to the complex time of remembrance.