Guido Gazzilli

Home is Home (All Alone)

curated by Klaus Kehrer, Florent Basiletti and Enrico Stefanelli
in collaboration with the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation

Location: Palazzo Guinigi, Via Guinigi, 29

Opening days and hours:
Monday – Thursday from 15:00 to 19:00
Friday – Sunday from 10:00 to 19:00


Home is Home (All Alone) is inspired by Gabriele Tinti’s verses about the Faun. The Faun is a nature deity belonging to Roman mythology. God of the countryside, woods and flocks, he has always symbolized the creative fullness, the power of life that in its overflow, exaltation and attainment of maximum intensity, turns into destruction and death. The Faun seeks his place and refuge. In this chaos he fights, builds, destroys, meets, leaves, falls in love, losing control. He escapes from the normalcy of things in search of his identity. The city does not want him and he does not want the city, and in the end, he rejoins nature through which he regains a balance with himself. Guido Gazzilli’s project is a photographic compendium of an allegory: the metaphor between his life and that of the mythological figure of the faun. These are notes that come from that subsoil that Guido Gazzilli investigates, trying to bring to the surface his reflection on the human condition. They are, first of all, stories. Of places, people, artists, glances, bodies, suburbs, dreams, sometimes degradation. It is undoubtedly a research project: the search for a shelter, a place called home. Of a dialogue with one’s own solitude, also in anthropological and existential terms, of which this project is a eulogy.
…and the Faun? The Faun, well… understands that home is not a physical place but is himself. In a solitude that becomes a process, a movement, a landing that, paradoxically, cancels solitude.
“During the construction of the project I found myself moving house by choice and living in the woods, coming from the big city. It was a project I wanted to share with someone and we were happy to do it, then everything, as if by a tragic spell, broke and destroyed. And I was left alone for a few years struggling to rebuild myself and my inner home and also the one that offered me shelter. Hence the title of the book.”

BIOGRAPHY
Guido Gazzilli was born in Rome in 1983. He builds a body of work on identity and everyday scenes through personal and subjective narratives. He develops a universe in which he mixes human and animal figures together with natural elements and fragments of landscapes. He narrates people and places as personal diaries focusing on the relationship between humans, nature and the city inspired by poetry and music. His work has been published by major newspapers and magazines, including: The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Internazionale, El Pais, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Le Monde, Nat Geo, Rolling Stone, Gq, Vice, Smithsonian, Billboard, Vogue. His work has been exhibited in festivals, galleries and museums internationally, won international awards and participated in artist residencies. He has worked as an assistant to Paolo Pellegrin (Magnum Photos). He teaches at Ied and is represented by the Contrasto agency. He lives and works between Rome and the countryside.