Das Unheimliche by Giaime Meloni

A collection of works by Italian photographer Giaime Meloni.

This book contains a series inspired by the 1919 paper "Das unheimliche" by psychiatrist Sigmund Freud. Meloni spent two years commuting to the village of Eni, located in Borca di Cadore, Belluno, Veneto, Italy. Eni Village is a prestige commune designed by Italian businessman and politician Enrico Mattei in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It was a large complex of more than 100,000 square meters with a system divided into various structures, but after Mattei's death in a plane crash in 1962, there was no successor to his enthusiasm, and the original concept was abandoned. was only partly executed. After that, however, the project was restarted, with architect Edoardo Gellner taking the lead and architect Carlo Scarpa in charge of some. Görner perfectly understood Matti's organic and social norms and finally made them a reality.

Freud argued that people feel eerie when something that is originally familiar is temporarily suppressed and reappears in front of them. What kind of feeling do we have when we find the remnants of the past in the recorded beautiful images of "absence"? Transcending time and place, this book invites readers to the depths of Eni Village.

First edition 200 copies.

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Title: Das Unheimliche
Artist: Giaime Meloni
Skinnerboox, 2020
Softcover with flaps
210 x 285 mm, 48 pages
First edition of 200 copies
ISBN 978- 88-94895-39-1
￥4,500 + tax