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Interno Zoo
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07.Interno Zoo

2026 Photobook

Self-published
March 2026

Interno Zoo is a visual exploration that has the Rome Zoo as its starting point; a space specifically designed for observation, and thus making it possible to focus on the very ways in which the gaze is directed within a given context. In zoos, pathways, enclosures, apertures, and thresholds form the infrastructure of the gaze.  They are the elements through which the attention is guided, contained and permitted; instruments for organising movement; constructions for regulating the distance between the observer and the observed; and constructions of control within a simulation of reality. Through a process of narrative subtraction, Interno Zoo excludes animals and visitors from the image.  This makes what remains – the ensemble of structures, surfaces, pathways, and separation devices – the exclusive object of the investigation. Without bodies to display, the zoo loses its spectacle-like dimension and reveals itself as a constructed environment. The images record what normally serves as a backdrop. Each photograph shows a space designed for a specific function. The cages, observation points, barriers and pathways do not narrate an event, but a logic. 

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