29/09/2026
Ausstellungseröffnung / Exhibition Opening:
PHOTO CLUSTER: EMERGING
ARTISTS 2026
MATTEO LISANTI, NICO PISTEC, DAVID ESTÉVEZ
Drifting Through brings together three practices that explore Marc Augé’s concept of the non-place. Non-places are all around us: airports, waiting rooms,
tourist sites – spaces organised around circulation, efficiency, repetition and temporary presence.
In Matteo Lisanti’s Necrovalley, the non-place reveals itself as an ephemeral village on the beach of Lido di Classe. Built from driftwood and other materials
gathered from the sea and nearby forest, these shelters appear during the day to host beach visitors and disappear at dusk, leaving behind a landscape that
is continuously constructed and dismantled.
Nico Pistec’s Selfportraits shifts this investigation of non-permanence towards the intersection of automation and identity. The artist does not use a traditional camera but instead hijacks the photobooth, a transient space removed from real space and time. As he presses the button but never enters the machine, he allows it to photograph itself.
The booth’s white interior—normally reduced to an almost invisible background for the individual—becomes the subject of the image.
In David Estévez’s thank you for your visit, this process of abstraction moves from the physical world into the algorithm. Estévez feeds his own travel photographs through a neural network, producing sequences of near-identical images in which the recognisable
features of turistic atractions remain while the personal disappears.
Across the three works, the non-place emerges not as somewhere we simply pass through, but as a system that continually transforms the particular into the generic. The works in the exhibition Drifting Through ask what kinds of identity, memory, and belonging might persist in spaces built for none of them.
Curated by Olja Simčič Jerele
Diese Ausstellung ist Teil des Jahresprogramms von ZIGUTAMVE – Verein für zeitgenössische Fotografie und wird aus dem Kulturbudget des Bezirks Neubau
finanziert.
Cover Foto Matteo Lisanti