Missing Resource Exception emerges from the daily experience of Milan’s urban landscape. The images do not describe space, but convey a fragmented and unstable perception, where points of reference dissolve. Through a reduction of detail and a limit use of the photographic medium, the work reflects a condition of disorientation: what is missing becomes part of the image.
Missing Resource Exception
(2006 – in progress)
This work originates from my relationship with Milan, the city where I live and move through every day. While rooted in landscape photography, these images do not aim to describe or map a territory, but rather to reflect on a perceptual condition: that of a complex, fragmented space, difficult to measure through vision. The post-industrial urban landscape appears as a dense accumulation of structures, signs, and stratifications. Within the repetitive experience of commuting, this environment risks becoming invisible, almost “missing” from perception. The project emerges as an attempt to respond to this disorientation, avoiding a contemplative approach and the conventions of traditional landscape photography. Instead, the images seek to convey the physical and unstable nature of space: a chaotic system in constant transformation, where points of reference dissolve or are pushed to the margins of the frame. Towers, antennas, construction sites, scaffolding, and emerging structures become recurring presences—surface manifestations of an imperfect, fluid landscape. The investigation extends to the photographic medium itself. The digital sensor is pushed to its operational limits, working under conditions of instability, noise, and loss of information. The resulting images renounce detail and sharpness, privileging an imperfect, essential vision. Technical imperfections—digital noise, traces, interference—are not corrected, but embraced as part of the visual language. They reflect an incomplete perception of the present. The title, Missing Resource Exception, is drawn from programming language: it refers to the impossibility of retrieving information that has not been recorded. Likewise, these images retain only partial traces of reality, reducing the landscape to simplified, almost two-dimensional forms. The gaze is compelled to search for a detail that does not appear.
Perhaps distance becomes the only possible mode of seeing.
“What is striking about new urban agglomerations is the complete absence of perspective. There are no longer streets, nor points of reference. The existential disorientation one experiences coincides with the loss of the ability to be within space and to map it.”
— Frederic Jameson —
Missing Resource Exception is a limited edition photographic portfolio.
Edition: 6 + 3 a.p.
Archival Pigmented Fine Art Giclée prints on Velvet Somerset paper.
Dimensions: 70 × 100 cm.