Ever since work began to beautify the City for the Jubilee 2025, someone, I suppose from the municipality of Rome, came up with the ingenious idea of sprinkling the fences of the endless construction sites with the image of a wide-open eye gazing at us blankly.
Whether they are a vaguely blasphemous reference to the Lord who sees all, or rather to Orwell’s Big Brother, some laughable conspiracy theory about the occult powers that watch over us, or a memento mori that is a little out of place, the fact is that all these vacant and omnipresent eyes have a surreal and slightly disturbing quality.
Indeed, images of wide-open, outsized eyes in general have this alienating aspect, even the ‘unofficial’ ones that fill the entire city along with the former.
Over the past few months, I have taken ample advantage of this opportunity to obtain ironically absurd images of the city, several incongruent eyes have been featured in previous collections, but now, to exhaust the theme with the remaining photos, I have composed a collection dedicated to this strange way in which we and the city look each other in the eye.
