Renato Leotta Roma

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Roma, produced on the occasion of the 2020 edition of the MAXXI BVLGARI Prize, is a collection of moving images of cats and ruins, made with 16 millimeter film and then transferred to digital, during the first few weeks of the lockdown in the center of Rome, a city that has always been the symbol of historical and anthropological stratifications. In this ideal walk through some of the symbolic places in the city, besides the archeological evidence, the real stars are the cats pictured inside the Sacred Area of Torre Argentina, in their vacuous and adventurous everyday life that unfolds in the shadows of the remains of civilization. In Roma Leotta records the cats’ existence more than their silhouettes. The choice of the subject is not so much attributed to the desire to represent a specific type of animal, as to the result of a more complex reflection on the relationship between society and animals, on art’s function as a means to rethink the relationship between man and nature and the anthropized landscape, a pretext to recount the absence of the human being and to reflect on the theme of the city as it relates to time.

Foto Roberto Luigia Apa

Work produced with the support of Fondazione MAXXI and BVLGARI

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