A visual investigation for Gallerie delle Prigioni's debut art exhibition, Sahara: What is written will remain, a show dedicates to the desert's cultural heritage and its present day.
In search of a contemporary relevancy to the desert, an extensive study about today's cross-Sahara travelling was undertake. The result is a routes map reconstructed from information gathered from news articles and reports, composed of almost 400 satellite images from Google Earth, showing the commonly-used paths by the desert frequent travellers: African refugees, human traffickers, environmental migrants, international tourists and truck drives who work in uranium and oil fields.
English writing and editing: Suzanna Petot
Italian translation: Chiara Longhi, Giorgia de Luca
Photos: Marco Pavan
Italian translation: Chiara Longhi, Giorgia de Luca
Photos: Marco Pavan
