The photographs taken by Michele Nastasi of L’Aquila after the earthquake lay
the city implacably bare as a place where it has become impossible to live: a
deserted and surreal landscape, choked with structures shoring up the buildings
and fixing the city in a state of suspension without any time limit.
The photographs, accompanied by a set of drawings and critical essays written by Giorgio Agamben and Maddalena d’Alfonso, conjure up images of surgery: prostheses, braces and splints stabilize the body of the city, but while the operations have been a technical success, the patient shows no signs of life.
