NOI

selected photographs | Alu-Dibond print | 70cm x 100cm 

NOI (The Italian word for ‘us’) is an ongoing photographic series started in 2018 on the streets of Rome. The work traces the accidental beauty shaped by unconscious hands and uncaring elements. Each image becomes a small narrative: an excavation where one surface is pasted over, torn away, and revealed again. What begins as public display is slowly transformed by weather, time, and the marks of passersby — until its meaning fractures into something new.
These layered remnants act as a metaphor for Rome itself: a city built on centuries of peeling back, uncovering, and resurfacing. As  they are so often found in the city, these images are presented alongside one another, matching the proximity, not only the signs, but of the residence themselves.
Within each photograph exists a kind of poem — an ode to impermanence, to loveliness born through erosion. They are inseparable from the environments that created them, reminding us that collective gestures, even unconscious ones, reshape our surroundings into striking forms of visual culture.
For me, NOI is both a surrender and a revelation: a meditation on what I find difficult and devastatingly beautiful about inhabiting a shared urban space, where control gives way to collaboration with time, decay, and chance.