Photographs of Fabrizio Uliana

VENICE – FORTE MARGHERA*
Former French Gunpowder Magazine**

photography exhibition and
book presentation

Venice anamorphic
images capturing the lagoon city, far from any aesthetic idealization

📅 from April 24 to May 1, 2024
🕰 opening hours: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM | 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM
🎉 inauguration and book presentation
thursday, April 24, at 6:30 PM

A visual journey through an unknown Venice
After the exceptional high tide on November 13, 2019, I began exploring Venice with a new perspective, far from any aestheticization.
Through the project “Venice anamorphic”, I capture the city’s restless and elusive soul, transforming it into enigmatic, dreamlike, and disorienting images.
Using a smartphone, I push technology beyond its limits, leveraging dynamic, circular, and semicircular movement to create effects that challenge perception: non-existent depths, optical illusions, and the fine line between chaos and order.
The photographs, printed in fine art on 60×80 cm sheets, invite the viewer to “see things that aren’t there” and reflect on the city’s future.

Venezia anamorfica / Venise anamorphique
Published in August 2023 by Escourbiac (France), the book is accompanied by texts from:
Carlo Chiapponi, photographer: on the new mobile viewpoint of contemporary photography;
Frédéric Cossutta, philosopher: on the hermeneutic interpretation of images;
Dominique Maingueneau, linguist: on the deconstruction of Venetian aesthetics.

*How to get there:
🚋 From Mestre Center:
Tram line T1 – direction Venice – stop San Marco Forte Marghera
Bus line 9, 15, or 32H – stop Aretusa Forte Marghera
🚆 From Mestre Train Station:
Bus line 15 or 43 – stop Aretusa Forte Marghera
Bus line 31H – stop Via Torino
🛳 From Venice – Piazzale Roma:
Tram line T1 – direction Mestre – stop San Marco Forte Marghera

**The Former French Gunpowder Magazine is nestled in a green oasis within Forte Marghera, the oldest and most majestic military complex in Mestre, once known as the “entrenched camp”.