CRIMINALI ARCHITECTURE

Criminal Architectures tells the story of how the mafia influenced architecture, degraded the landscapes and changed people's lives. Di Nunzio went to Campania, finding villas and swimming pools on the terraces of houses that once belonged to the Camorra - and in public and private buildings unfinished projects of Calabria. She visited Puglia where businesses are starting but stopped their activities shortly after. In Sicily, in search of his properties confiscated. These photos tell the story of southern Italy - from structures and faces that tell stories of abandonment and anger, of worry and courage. Alongside the persistent tension between forgetting and the memory, the report focuses on what is never finished: buildings, hotels, luxury restaurants, all half built. They are abandoned as skeletons of iron and concrete. Bare marble, staircases desolate, abandoned terraces with empty pools inhabited only by rotten water lilies are the new archaeological and architectural ruins of the Italian landscape. Adelaide Di Nunzio was born in Naples in 1978. She graduated from the Academy of Arts in Naples and she moved to Milan to follow the photography and contemporary photographic design at the school of photography.