Caves
2025
Photo series as loop, on projection or screen, ca. 15 min

The photo series Caves brings together human-made and natural caves in Sicily. The work is presented as a projected loop and currently consists of around 80 images.
Sicily has been a geographical crossroads in the Mediterranean for thousands of years, shaped by numerous cultures. Its geological features have fostered a diverse cave culture. Human traces in natural caves date back to the Neolithic period. In the millennia that followed, people created their own cave structures in the soft limestone and gypsum rock, such as the necropolises of the Bronze Age, ritual tunnel systems, Byzantine rock villages, and Norman castles. Successive cultural epochs overlapped in their use of caves, resulting in enigmatic places whose origins are no longer identifiable but whose cultural significance remains palpable. The human inscription into Sicily’s rock continues to this day in quarries and mines.