The Stanze della Fotografia immediately testify to their strong belonging to the city by presenting, alongside the retrospective of Ugo Mulas, the exhibition Venezia Alter Mundus by Alessandra Chemollo, conceived starting from the volume of the same name published by Marsilio Arte in 2022. Sixty photographs, set up on the first piano delle Stanze, which offers a peculiar vision of the most photographed city in the world, suspended between the past and the future. As Franco Rella observes in the book of the same name, «the images that Alessandra Chemollo has traced and put into a plot, into a story, arise from a genuine attempt to go in search of another world, alter mundus. In order to do this, she has not only followed the profiles of the magnificent buildings, monuments and houses she presents to us; she has not only chased the water in which the columns sink or are reflected, but she has tried to empty Venice of everything that constitutes it today, but that above all masks it. His Venice has no pigeons, no seagulls, no tourists. We cannot consider as such the tiny figures that move – almost an ornamental decoration – in a photograph of the square in front of the Procuratie Nuove».
