In this last work, Alessandro Vicario confronts himself with places unknown to him, belonging to strangers. He grasps the universal dimension of these traces of lived life and, without succumbing to facile sentimentality, begins to photograph details of the environment and furnishings in real size (1:1). Sometimes the subjects are unrecognisable, sometimes they are, but it is precisely this apparent coldness of the photographic reproduction that makes the signs of these distant lives universal, transfiguring them.
