Arvigo, Scale 1:1

Eugenia Re's project

Academic year

2025 - 2026

Arvigo (Arvigu), in the Genoese dialect, refers to a place cast in perpetual shadow - a metaphor for the margins of the urban gaze. The project unfolds as a photographic study of Genoa’s working class districts - Begato, Forte Quezzi (Biscione), and Lido San Pietro (Lavatrici), challenging narratives that conflate architecture, marginality, and hardship. Months of observation explore how the legacy of 1970s Brutalism shapes how these places are seen. The photographs convey a suspended vision where abandonment and everyday life coexist, questioning the distance between reality and imagination. 

 

The Searchlights is the second chapter of Ti vorrei dire, a three-year project developed in collaboration with Gallerie d'Italia - Torino, a part of Intesa Sanpaolo. The projects map out the urgencies of our time through the perspective of a new generation. Ecological and climate crises, dynamics of power and representation, identity, mental health, precarity, memory and narratives of the present run through the works, shaping a collective account that restores complexity to what is too often reduced to a label.

Curated by:
Carlotta Cattaneo, Daria Scolamacchia, Giulia Ticozzi
With teaching support from:
Luis Aniceto, Francesca Cirilli, Fabio Barile, Diego Fontana, Alessandra Foschi, Simona Taddeucci, Jacopo Loiodice, Céline Volonterio