Botto & Bruno


Today we must seek lyricism and utopia in the inner city that, observed from a normal point of view, provoke profound feelings of angst.

Salvatore Lacagnina: Abandoned factories, huge tower blocks, deserted parks, nursery schools, local health clinics … I’d say that your iconography is not so much the product of artistic imagination but stems from a need to document and catalog the inner city. Your work focuses first and foremost on real life, on the daily existence of those who live on the outskirts of big cities. We witness the triumph of life in your photos because they affirm the need to find utopia and lyricism even in settings that, when seen from the usual perspective, can provoke a deep feeling of angst. In this sense, your work can also be viewed as part of the realist tradition–pretty soon the time will come when this term no longer scares young artists–which has always sought to instill poetry into simple, even ordinary, situations and feelings...




Salvatore Lacagnina
Translation by Jacqueline Smith