Matteo de Mayda poursuit son enquête sur les conséquences de la tempête Vaia dans un nouvel ouvrage né de trois ateliers organisés avec l'écrivain Cosimo Bizzarri au sein des communautés touchées par la catastrophe huit ans auparavant. En collaboration avec une cinquantaine d'adolescents et les artistes Ruggge, Alvvino et Giacomo Covacich, ils ont eu recours à la fabrication de masques, au cyanotype et au collage pour explorer les souvenirs liés à la tempête et la manière dont ces communautés se reconstruisent.
Eight years after Storm Vaia, photographer Matteo de Mayda and writer Cosimo Bizzarri returned to the communities affected by the disaster, creating space and providing tools for residents to tell their own stories and portray the places they call home. In 2026, with the support of the Premio Basilico, de Mayda and Bizzarri brought together around fifty teenagers aged 13 to 18 for three workshops developed in collaboration with artists Ruggge, Alvvino and Giacomo Covacich. Through mask-making, cyanotype and collage, participants explored the connections between their inner worlds and the ecosystems around them, weaving memories of Vaia together with personal reflections, confessions and dreams. There's No Calm After the Storm. Visual Experiments Together with Communities Hit by Vaia extends de Mayda's ongoing visual research, bringing it into dialogue with the perspectives and ways of seeing that emerged among younger generations during the workshops. The project explores the processes of repair and how communities respond to the social and ecological changes triggered by the storm.
Matteo de Mayda (né en 1984 à Trévise) est un photographe basé à Venise dont les recherches visuelles portent sur des causes sociales et environnementales.
