"Ritratto di una linea", Valli del Pasubio (2021).

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Hosted in the former historical bakery in Piazza Pecori Giraldi, at the centre of Valli del Pasubio, Ritratto di una linea(Portrait of a Line) is a photographic exhibition that brings together historical artefacts and contemporary research to open a new space for reflection.

Landscape, enterprise, and art emerge here as a regenerative triad, reactivating the surrounding social and urban context while questioning its possible futures.

The exhibition combines two complementary visual narratives: the documentation of the bottling process inside the Fonte Regina plant in Staro, and a series of photographs of the surrounding landscapes from which the company’s water originates.

Through this dual approach, the industrial and the natural merge into a shared geometry — the production line and the mountain line echoing one another. The project grants the same aesthetic dignity to machinery and landscape, to the Piccole Dolomiti and to the hidden interiors of production, revealing their intrinsic beauty and interdependence.

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Composition operates as both method and metaphor: a principle that connects each photograph, each fragment of landscape, and each element of the territory into a single constellation. Each image isolates its subject from time and context, yet remains in dialogue with the others, with the building that hosts them, and with the broader geography to which they belong.

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Ritratto di una linea thus proposes art as an engine of resemantisation — a way to reframe the relationship between company and territory, and to generate new forms of attention and care within marginal areas.
By pairing photographs with historical plaques and archival materials, the exhibition recalls how industrial spaces once served as places of community and connection.

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Culminating with the presentation of the new Fonte Margherita brick — a design object that embodies sustainability and innovation — Ritratto di una linea closes the circle by defining a new common ground: the Piccole Dolomiti are no longer a backdrop, but active subjects in a landscape where all elements coexist on the same horizon.​

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