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“Most of the time, as we look around it seems as if our surroundings had always been like that. It is a quite natural attitude, which leads us to be surprised when we become aware of changes. Unaware of our destiny, and therefore in need of certainty, we rather prefer places to remain immutable and in some ways as eternal representations outside of time. The work that Gianluca Gamberini has started in Rome testifies to temporary realities by definition. He reminds us of the importance of revealing the landscape through photography, of building up stores of memory, of collecting stories about how we were and what was there. Nothing lasts forever. Our very existence needs confirmations that can only be found in the tracks already beaten, in the memories that recall only those places where we have lived. After all, as the poet Salvatore Quasimodo wrote “Everyone stands alone at the heart of the Earth.” An instinctive vision such as that of Gamberini was lived from inside.”
Steve Bisson from “Urbanautica”
