"Ritratto d'Italia, Secature" at Bassano Fotografia 2019 Fuoripalazzo (Bassano del Grappa, IT), 2019.

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Secare comes from Latin, meaning to cut, to saw, and, figuratively, to cleave through.
In architecture, this act corresponds to sectioning — the practice of cutting through space to understand and reveal relationships: between building and context, inside and outside, above and below. The section becomes both method and metaphor: it is a tool that exposes hidden connections and allows for new dialogues between seemingly separate realms.

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In geometry, however, secare acquires an opposite meaning: to identify the points shared by two curves or surfaces. The gesture of cutting becomes one of union; of recognising intersections rather than divisions.

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This project reinterprets the secant action through a series of twenty photographs depicting vegetable products, each representing one of Italy’s twenty regions. The act of sectioning reveals their inner structures, bringing together the diversity of regional produce into a shared geometry; a new “place” of encounter.

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The cut thus becomes a magnifying lens over the ordinary: an invitation to observe fragility, imperfection, and transience as intrinsic forms of beauty. Through Secare, regional identities are not separated but unified, celebrating the multiplicity and richness of Italian vegetable heritage in its most essential form.

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