Snowglobes souvenir, smog/ city particulates - 2018-2023
New York, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, London, Lisbon, Barcelona, Paris, Marseille, Berlin, Switzerland, Milan, Naples, Rome, Trento, Venice, Cairo, Athens, Istanbul, Budapest, Warsaw, Moscow, Delhi, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong.
The snowglobe is a modern ritual, a kitsch object to collect, a trinket displayed in windows, something travelers and vacationers show off as a trophy among other trophies. Every city, reproduced and enclosed inside a glass sphere, is traditionally covered by snow, even Cairo. The "Made in China" souvenir is detached from its original history and repurposed for mass tourism. In this collection, the object is presented with an imaginary future, where snow has been replaced by fine dust. Diesel particulates are collected by scraping a teaspoon against the exhaust pipes of city cars, imagining doing the same with cruise ships and aircraft.
Photography: Samuel Grazioli
