The black-and-white photographs present fragments from a minimalist home. Images taken through doorways into empty rooms, plates and bowls stacked on shelves, a rattan chair at a wooden table deal with loss, grief, and the absence of loved ones.

 

Disorienting and multi-layered with surrealist sensibilities: not the usual traits of a map, yet these are the mesmerizing qualities of the photographs published in Luigi Ghirri: The Map and The Territory. The catalogue accompanies the first retrospective exhibition, which will tour three locations across Europe, of 20th century Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri since his death in 1992.