Solo un gioco (2017-18)

Rome, January 18, 1977, the football player Luciano Re Cecconi entered a jewelery shop in the north of Rome saying “It’s a hold up!”.  The jeweler did not get the joke and shot the youngman. The stricken player foiled to the floor, crying, “It was a joke, it was just a joke ... “ He died on the way to the hospital.

Beyond this human interest story, by addressing the shadowy lines of a polemic case, I cast a more global reflection on the relationship with football in the construction of the Roman identity. Through the combination of various elements where the photographic image is omnipresent, I decided to create a project that claims to reformulate a certain number of narratives and scenarios. My proposal was part of a research approach that focused on unrevealed, buried stories, combining historical investigations, visual metaphors and critical documentary practice.

From the initial proposal, I decided to use Re Recconi’s team number – #8 – as a playful access to the story. As if following the trajectory of the football player across time and space, I arranged all the fragmented elements in 8 spaces. From the 8 faces of a diamond cuts or a 8 sided dices, to the 8th Antique King of Rome (now a metro strop), the installation becomes connected and playful, and shows my personal vision of the city of Rome.