Mascheramenti
The coast of Sardinia is dotted with fortifications, bearing witness to the island’s long history and now an integral part of the landscape. After spending almost ten years away from the home, I realize that I have acquired a more analytical look on my homeland, noticing, almost as if they were new, things I had once taken for granted. Mascheramenti emerges from this outward gaze returning inward, focusing on elements conceived and built with the specific intent of blending into the natural environment: the forts and bunkers of the Second World War. The project explores the relationship between these structures and the Sardinian landscape, in which they sometimes hide, and at other times assert themselves openly. Humans become part of this relationship by modifying, reusing, and re-inhabiting these structures, almost forgetting, or taking for granted, the historical memory they preserve.