Ballads from the end of the Desert is a visual exploration of the desertic and semi-desertic landscape of South Africa. An atlas of places and stories tied together by the ephemeral, the wild, the unknown. A space where the boundary of reality intertwines with magic, a time for dreamers and loners.
It went from the surprise that sprung from a distant observation to a disillusioned denial; it became slowly part of a new normal, and finally hit the mark with the power of surging numbers and the inevitable toll of deaths. The pandemic reached South Africa: its coming has blurred racial and economic divides and puts strain to deep running fault lines, contradictions etched into its people consciousness.
The most used word in Italy’s last public showers is as simple as, apparently, unattainable: home. To cope with its systemic housing crisis – with an average of 7 evictions every day – the city of Turin still runs 4 communal baths offering a basic service for those living in harsh housing conditions.
