Mimmo Jodice’s Naples is a city in black and white, silent, dense and enigmatic. Thecolours and din have dissolved before the lens and are no longer part of it.The Neapolitan photographer’s early work was instead characterized by a markedlysocial approach, investigating corners of the city with the eye of a contemporaryethnologist. The book Vedute di Napoli (1980), from which the print on display istaken, marked the end of Jodice’s “social period” and the start of a new explorationof reality in which the human figure gives way to the examination of urban spaceand the traces of life it bears. The photographer presents his city, its neighbourhoodsand backstreets in images constituting a visionary interpretation of reality,a “metaphysics of everyday life”. The Neapolitan repertoire is a documentary ofsurrealistic images to be found in day-today life in the crumbling walls, the fleetingglimpse of a bus or, as in this photo, the ghostly apparition of a car. (Transl. by Paul Metcalfe per Scriptum, Roma)