Hunting archive

Guglielmo Benassi's project

Academic year

2025 - 2026

This project examines the underlying nature of the hunter’s gaze through an archive of images, many framed through rifle scopes. It does not document a hunting episode; instead, it explores how looking becomes an exercise of power and control over the prey. Seen through this technical lens, the animal shifts from natural presence to potential target, suspended between observation and final decision.

The viewer enters a voyeuristic space where optical distance becomes a symbolic assertion of power over another life.

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