Solastalgia by Marina Vitaglione

A collection of works by French photographer Marina Vitaglioni.

Venice's delicate soil is slowly being eroded by irreversible changes that threaten this much-loved city: low tides, land subsidence, and pollution. Together with images generated from films that have deteriorated due to being soaked in Adriatic seawater, this photo/text/documentary (documentary & fiction) begins to unfold a story that strictly records the disappearance of this water city.

Combining creative narratives with poetic photography, Solastalgia impacts the archipelago of the 118 islands that make up Venice and sheds light on the growing environmental challenges of each day. Venice is a World Heritage-listed city and one of the most threatened European cities from global warming. Buildings and delicate foundations are slowly being eroded by rising sea levels, land subsidence, frequent high tides, and marine pollution caused by oversized cruise ships. In the past 100 years, the water level has risen by nearly 30 centimeters, and in 2016 the UNESCO World Heritage Committee feared that it was a matter of seconds. Written in the voice of Venice, which has been ravaged by its inhabitants and is slowly being forgotten, this emotional anthology evokes the city's former grandeur and at the same time makes us ponder the fate of its ever-worsening situation. . The images in this book were generated from negative films that had been soaked for several weeks in the waters of the Adriatic Sea, which was actively eroding and swallowing the city.

* “Solastalgia” refers to homesickness caused by a change in environment while staying at home.

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Title: Solastalgia
Artist: Marina Vitaglione
Overlapse, 2017
Hardcover, Section‐sewn and quarter-bound
240 x 170 mm, 84 pages
First Edition
ISBN : 9780994791924
¥4,700 + tax