Angelo Antolino

Strategy of attention

This work belongs to the project Non tutte le strade portano a Roma in which Guy Tillim, Raphael Dalla Porta, Xavier Ribas and Giuliano Matteucci have participated in, on occasion of the recent edition of FotoGrafia International Festival of Rome. Matteucci, Tillim and I, were to take a deeper insight into the Sabina region and choose the topics that we felt best represented this land.

Farfa’s Abbey, founded in the IV century, used to be one of the most important European monastic centres during the period of Charles the Great. On the geographical map of high-medieval Europe, which differs from the current one, it covered a crucial role as a political and religious point of reference. Today the Abbey is closely intact, and a rare case for Italy whose surrounding peaceful landscape made up of olive-grove hills seems intact as well.

I chose this place because many traits of the Sabina region can be found, such as a peculiar mystic atmosphere that in a way is far from religious. This location, currently inhabited by a community of barely six monks, allowed me to develop a topic on Mankind’s solitude in places which were once the centre of History and is now completely far away from it.

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