photo © Mohamed Keita
Curated by Carmen Pilotto
The exhibition is promoted by the Department of Culture of Roma Capitale and Azienda Speciale Palaexpo
Produced by Azienda Speciale Palaexpo in collaboration with Mosaico Studio
The exhibition tells about Rome through the attentive and sensitive gaze of Mohamed Keita, a young photographer born in Côte d'Ivoire who now lives and works between Rome and Bamako (Mali).
The title of the exhibition Porto Roma alludes to the ambivalent nature of the City: a place of arrival and departure, refuge and threshold, port of the soul, where past and present coexist, and where the silence of the spaces is intertwined with human presences.
The exhibition route invites visitors to cross the city following the gaze of Keita, moving between the center and the outskirts in search of faces, gestures, and places capable of revealing its identity. In the exhibition, alongside shots taken from the volume Roma 10/20, there are series such as Prima-Dopo and Ritratti, which document urban transformations and trace an emotional and social geography.
Keita’s Rome is contemporary, alive and changing, where humanity manifests itself as much in presence as in absence. Porto Roma is more than a tribute: it is an invitation to rediscover the city in its most authentic dimension, made of contrasts, memory, and transformation. Each photograph is an act of love, a fragment of time that gives us back Rome in its deepest essence.