Anastasia Samoylova. Harbor

Location: Gallerie d'Italia. Address: Piazza San Carlo 156 Intesa Sanpaolo brings to the Gallerie d'Italia in Turin the exhibition Anastasia Samoylova. Harbor , a new original commissioned project that brings the Russian-American artist to exhibit in Italy for the first time. Taking inspiration from Germaine Krull (1897-1985), a pioneer of modern and unconventional photography, and from Luigi Ghirri (1943-1992), an innovator of photographic imagery, Samoylova carries out her own photographic analysis by telling the soul of 7 European port cities: Genoa, Venice, Rotterdam, Marseille, Lisbon, Athens and Istanbul. “Photography is a medium that compresses time and space into a single frame” the artist states. Time and space are fundamental elements in the composition of a photograph, as they are for the development of port cities. Ports are structural spaces that have evolved over time and space, they are a nexus of transformations, intersections, dynamisms, contradictions, inclusions and exclusions, wealth and poverty, past, present and future. They are places of temporal and spatial transition, marked by unstoppable commercial expansion, by the danger of the