WALLS MEMORIES

Robert Polidori's photographs reveal a building silently succumbing to natural forms of decay and neglect: countless layers of paint have flaked and faded, resulting in a multi-layered palette of colour and design. An involuntary sum of successive efforts have been made of various painters and craftsmen who acted and modified their surfaces at different times over the decades. This slow degradation bears witness to the history "seen" and "lived" by the walls themselves. Polidori captures the poetic quality of the ruin and, in the photographic immobility, the rooms are portrayed as metaphors and containers for memory.