The project is a work carried out during the Fondazione Studio Marangoni's ‘Sense of Place’ course, held by Pietro Paolini, during the last two weeks of June 2025. The images explore the Arno embankment, understood as a transitional space between the city and the river, between the urbanised environment and one of the last strips of nature still visible in the fabric of the city.

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The title recalls precisely the embankment as a space of transition between mankind, us, and water. Just after the sun goes down, in this liminal space, several distinct levels manifest themselves, where human presence increases: water, human traces and structures.​

 

The project seeks to document and at the same time evoke this space of unstable equilibrium, humanity is confronted with water both physically and symbolically. A space that is a resource but is also exploited and forgotten.

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A broader dynamic is reflected in this urban space. The difficulty of contemporary mankind to live with nature without trying to domesticate or forget it. The embankment becomes a symbol of an ambiguous relationship, where mankind exploits this region, also trying to control everything natural, and abandoning traces of its passage within it. Photographing this space means questioning how we relate to the nature that remains outside of us and behind us, at the margins of the city and our attention.