Five Photographers Document Progress in Infrastructure at MAXXI L'Aquila

MAXXI L'Aquila presents 'Di roccia, fuochi e avventure sotterranee,' a photography exhibition curated by Alessandro Dandini de Sylva. The show features 120 works by Fabio Barile, Andrea Botto, Marina Caneve, Alessandro Imbriaco, and Francesco Neri, taken between 2019 and 2020. Previously displayed at MAXXI Rome, the exhibition documents large-scale infrastructure projects across three continents, including sites in Oslo, Athens, Hanoi, and Sydney Harbour. The project results from a collaboration with Ghella, an Italian infrastructure company. Director Bartolomeo Pietromarchi praised how the photographers captured construction sites without explicitly depicting them. Ghella donated 56 works to the museum, adding to MAXXI's permanent collection. The exhibition emphasizes a slow, reflective gaze countering contemporary visual culture.