A boundless field of crosses under a foggy sky. A few people walk along a path, among them a child.

The condition in which we live without noticing the collapse that surrounds us

A bombed city on fire: gutted buildings along a deserted street, under a smoke-filled sky.

Abyssosfera is a photographic and conceptual project that investigates a contemporary contradiction: humanity keeps living as usual while already immersed in the abyss.

The term joins two words:

  • Abyssos: depth, the invisible abyss
  • Sphere: a closed system, an inhabited world

Abyssosfera is therefore the condition in which we live without noticing the collapse that surrounds us.

This is not a peaceful exhibition.

It is a deliberate provocation, born to disturb sleeping consciences. An indictment of the indifferent comfort of those who, sheltered behind their own walls, accept a cruel peace that ignores the weak and crowns the strong.

We do not seek consent, but discomfort. Because only those who feel pain before the horror of migrations and of lives broken by war are still truly alive. In times of conflict, art that does not shake the soul is mere decoration: these works, instead, are necessity.

The accusation is aimed at those who know and stay silent, at those who choose the silence of apathy and shirk responsibility for what is real. This exhibition offers no solutions and does not console. It is a necessary cry that tears the veil of indifference.

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Works

Sketch of the work «The Terminal Supper» (work in preparation): a long table of seated figures, wrapped in barbed wire.
Sketch of the work «Nameless Earth» (work in preparation): a coffin in an empty field.
Sketch of the work «The Distant Crack» (work in preparation): a city on fire on the horizon.
Sketch of the work «Rags of Sovereignty» (work in preparation): pyramid-shaped tents under columns of smoke.
A missile seen from above against a pale background fading into black.
Sketch of the work «No One Is a Stranger» (work in preparation): an immense crowd on a hill.
Sketch of the work «Without Mercy» (work in preparation): a seated figure holds a uniform in their arms.

Goals

A camera viewfinder frames an immense crowd: many people hold up photographs of young men in uniform.

Awakening consciences

The primary aim is not aesthetic but psychological: to strike those who prefer to ignore reality, shaking the comfort of those who live sheltered in their own isolation and selfish calculation.

Claiming discomfort

Seeking the viewer's pain to test whether they are still “alive inside”. Discomfort becomes the only measure of our capacity to remain human and sensitive in the face of migrations and the blood of sacrificed young people.

Condemning indifference

The work acts as an indictment not only of the executioners, but above all of those who look without seeing, who choose complicit silence or take refuge in abstract theories to avoid taking real responsibility.

Rejecting decorative art

Claiming an art that is necessity, not decoration. The aim is to reject consoling aesthetics in times of war, turning the image into a tool of struggle and brutal testimony.

Every word written is a breath taken from the abyss.

    Every sentence passes through Maurizio before it becomes wall.

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    If these images disturbed you, write to me. Shared, the discomfort begins to become something.

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