A contaminated and now highly compromised landscape is the backdrop to an environmental disaster that since the dawn of the implementation of the great master plan in the 1960s has continued to worsen at the hands of the constricting processes of expansion, or rather, industrial ‘resistance’: Taranto, the ‘City of the Two Seas’ is the blatant and tangible representation of the implosion of an ecosystem conceived by the State and reinforced by the Capitalist System, mutated over the decades, and born with the mirage of the creation of a national machine of excellence in production and profit. A steel empire sartorially built on the needs of industrialisation that has scattered traces over the territory of battles fought, and lost, by the inhabitants themselves, who today are victims of the highest rate of pollution and cancer incidence ever recorded in Italy. Accepting the void connects two series L’altro Deserto Rosso and Me, the black box by showing the importance of photography used as a tool for documentation, analysis, research and, at the same time, cure. The diagnosis in 2023 of the recurrence of an advanced stage IV Hodgkin’s lymphoma offered me the opportunity to transform myself into an input reprocessed by an endless series of algorithms constituting the metabolism of black boxes to which I am thrown (ultrasound, X-ray, CT, PET). Through various softwares I have explored the diagnoses, becoming voyeur and manipulator of a body immersed in non-matter that fills the infinity of a fictitious virtual world of which the virtual fetish of myself is the sole inhabitant. The visual comparison with the reality of disease and resilience (not only of my struggling body but especially of the earth that has never stopped for an instant over the decades) underlines how human and environmental health are interconnected and inseparable.

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