Monica Lanzetta
The Luciano Ferrara Photographic Archive. Souls and bodies of the Neapolitan territory in a dissident narrative, 1975-1995
Through a critical and transversal methodology, this research project aims to explore the Luciano Ferrara Photographic Archive for the visual and cultural reconstruction of two decades (1975-1995) during which Naples became a stage—radical, yet not rooted—for tensions, art, and eros. The research places at its core the dimension of the body as a territory of negotiation between gender identity, eroticism, and social performance, highlighting—thanks to Ferrara’s militant and “southern” gaze—the power of photography as a tool for political and anthropological inquiry. The objective is to enhance the Archive as a complex discursive device, capable of breaking Neapolitan iconographic stereotypes and rearticulating the national photographic canon.
Research Interests
Photography, visual culture, cinema, anthropology, aesthetics, gender studies.