The photographs taken by Michele Nastasi of L´Aquila 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. Accompanied by a set of drawings and critical essays written by Giorgio Agamben and Maddalena d´Alfonso, they conjure up images of surgery: prostheses, braces and splints stabilize it, but while the operations have been a technical success, the patient shows no signs of life.
