The photographic series 1017-B (2019) draws attention to a disastrous situation caused by Europe’s largest steel-processing industrial complex, located in Taranto, southern Italy. The fine particulate matter dispersed throughout the Tamburi neighborhood, in the shadow of the steel mill, manifests as rust-colored pigment within the box frame: the seemingly ordinary setting is stained by a contemporary tragedy, a tangible effect of human actions on the earth.

The view of this sort of Atlantis, a child of the Anthropocene, seems to be obstructed and increasingly obscured by the synthetic pigment that closes the scenic arch like a heavy red curtain over a glimpse of the urban landscape.