Borderline Modernity is an exhibition by Italian photographer Giovanna Silva, curated by Pietro Airoldi and Izabela Anna Moren, that explores modern and contemporary architecture and urban space in Sicily and Poland. These two geographical areas on the borders of the European Union have a complex relationship with modernity and with the architecture produced in the post-war period: in Sicily, such architecture is often linked to uncontrolled urban and industrial development and is not exempt from speculative phenomena, while in Poland during the same period architecture also functioned as a political tool connected to socialist ideology.
Two perspectives on European post-war modernity — from Katowice to Palermo.
Giovanna Silva’s photographs are presented in dialogue with archival images by Polish masters: Chrząszczowa, Hermanowicz, Sumiński, and Zdebiak.
POLAND:
Fundacja Archeologia Fotografii
Opening: 26.07.2025, 18:00. Prior to the opening, at 16:00, a workshop on photographic archive conservation will be held, open to all and free of charge without registration.
Exhibition on view until 07.09.2025
The photographic project between Italy and Poland is produced by the Italian Cultural Institute in Warsaw and carried out with the support of the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture and the Italian Cultural Institute in Krakow. The exhibition is organised in collaboration with the Fundacja Archeologia Fotografii in Warsaw.