Filippo Menichetti and Martin Errichiello: In Fourth Person

In the 1960s, in the midst of the so-called “economic miracle,” Italy’s cultural and political powers established substantial processes of transformation of territories and traditions, in the name of a progress that must be fed with new roads, new industries, and definitely a new identity. This identity had to be able, technically and politically, to connect the most isolated areas of the country with one another, to bring to the most remote souls and attitudes its promise of change. The Calabria region, case study of our visual exploration, is an ancient land where the challenge of modernity has imposed its language and aesthetics, slowly oppressing the territory’s human and natural landscape. In Fourth Person presents a visual research into its anthropological and geopolitical transformation over the last 50 years—one whose “narration” is still today shrouded in mystery. 

Curator: Simon Karlstetter

Filippo Menichetti (1986, Florence), graduated with a degree in psychology from the Sapienza University of Rome in 2009, and then received a Master’s degree in reportage from the Scuola Romana di Fotografia in Rome. Thereafter he began to direct his gaze to the interactions between man and his environment, focusing on the urban landscape. In 2012 he graduated from the Danish School of Media and Journalism with the project What Remains: Meditations on a Landscape.

Martin Errichiello (1987, Naples) graduated from Bauer School of Photography in Milan and studied visual storytelling at the Danish School of Media in Aarhus. Since then he has pursued a personal research of the visual language through different media. He is now based in Naples, working as an independent photographer and filmmaker for documentaries, shorts, and music videos.