
Codex. L'archivio storico del banco di Napoli
- Publisher
- Contrasto
- ISBN
- 9788869656941
- Specifications
- Introduction by Gianluca Riccio
A photographic and anthropological narration of the Historical Archive kept by the Fondazione Banco di Napoli, the largest archive of banking documents in the world, born of an artistic residency during which Biasiucci lived for about three months among its 330 rooms. The images follow one another in a striking layout: the series of files kept in the archive appear as a static but imposing work which in its stillness reveals all the driving force of past history. "Heedless of their origin and purpose, Biasiucci portrays the files piece by piece and then reassembles them in a sequence freed from chronology, so that History no longer appears as a temporal field but a spatial one, a secret atlas or the ideal model of a city within the city. Side by side again, the files offer themselves to the gaze like the pieces of a new urban skyline, the profile of a city of memory built on layers of traces of the stories and uncertain identities that animated and crossed it" (Gianluca Riccio).