Líneas de Fuga - Fabrizio Contarino

Lines of Flight is a photographic installation emerging from a visual and geographical drift around the island of Pantelleria, an enclave between Europe and Africa in the Mediterranean. Through superimposed images, the work explores a horizon that fragments and is constantly reimagined, moving away from any notion of stability.
The island’s peripheral road, originally built for military surveillance purposes, now functions ambiguously: as a trace of control and as a platform for visual exploration. Along its circumscribed path, the horizon is approached, interrupted, and recombined again and again.
The photographs, conceived as a single continuous sequence and created through analog double exposure, interrupt the expected continuity of the open sea and condense different movements and perspectives into a single plane. Thus, linearity becomes circularity, and apparent continuity dissolves into elusive fragments.
The work alludes to Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of creative deterritorialization: a process that generates fractures and opens the possibility of becoming otherwise. What was once conceived as a mechanism of supervision is transformed into a space of perceptual drift, where the boundaries between observation and reverie, between cartography and wandering, dissolve.
Lines of Flight proposes an unstable and vibrant horizon, traversed by fractures and divergent perspectives.

Excerpt from the curatorial text by Adriana Monroy Galindo

The work is part of the project Landscapes of Control, an investigation into infrastructures in the Mediterranean as material expressions of power, domestication, and permanence.

This work was carried out thanks to the Research Grant from La Escocesa, Fàbrica de Creació, Barcelona.

Amb el suport de l’Institut de Cultura de Barcelona (ICUB).

Fabrizio Contarino (Italia, 1976) es artista visual e investigador residente en Barcelona. Su trabajo explora la intersección entre lo documental y lo especulativo, para reflexionar sobre pertenencia, identidad y memoria, y sobre la relación entre imagen y espacio, mirada y escena. Ha participado en el programa Temporals de Barcelona Cultura (2024) y ha expuesto en Europa, Asia y América Latina, en espacios como Vilnius Graphic Art Centre, Monumental Callao en Lima, Studio Weil en Mallorca y LOOP Festival en Barcelona. En octubre de 2025 formará parte de Talent Latent en el Festival SCAN Tarragona. Actualmente dirige Espai Souvenir y es miembro de La Escocesa, fábrica de creación.