opening líneas de fuga

exhibition by Fabrizio Contarino

Líneas de Fuga is a photographic installation that emerges from a visual and geographical drift around the island of Pantelleria, an enclave between Europe and Africa in the Mediterranean. Through superimposed images, the work explores a fragmented and constantly reimagined horizon, moving away from any idea of stability.

The island's perimeter road, originally built for military surveillance purposes, now serves as a control route and platform for visual exploration. The photographs, conceived as a continuous sequence using analogue double exposure, condense different movements and perspectives into a single plane, transforming linearity into circularity and dissolving apparent continuity into elusive fragments.

Inspired by Deleuze and Guattari's notion of creative deterritorialisation, the work converts what was once a mechanism of surveillance into a space of perceptual drift, where the boundaries between observation and reverie, cartography and wandering are blurred. Líneas de Fuga proposes an unstable and vibrant horizon, traversed by fractures and divergent perspectives.

Excerpt from the text by Adriana Monroy Galindo.

bio

Fabrizio Contarino (Italy, 1976) is a visual artist and researcher based in Barcelona. His work explores the intersection between the documentary and the speculative, reflecting on belonging, identity and memory, and on the relationship between image and space, gaze and scene. He has participated in the Temporals programme of Barcelona Cultura (2024) and has exhibited in Europe, Asia and Latin America. In October 2025, he will take part in Talent Latent at the SCAN Tarragona Festival. He currently directs Espai Souvenir and is a member of La Escocesa.

This exhibition is part of Fabrizio Contarino's research project Paisajes de control, which focuses on infrastructure in the Mediterranean as material expressions of power, domestication, and permanence, supported by one of La Escocesa's 2024 internal research grants.

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