From 30 September to 6 October 2021, Xenithia-Nomade Gallery comes back to via Lanzone in Milan to exhibit Franco Oberto's series of street photographs shot in Pyongyang in 2018. Exhibition is open everyday, from 11am to 2pm and from 4pm to 7pm.
In the presented series, called 'On the Fly', attention is focused on two main visual experiences: the first takes place in the streets where small groups of people wander across vast formal spaces - wide avenues, large crossroads, massive buildings not deprived of a certain form of elegance. Propaganda language is everywhere, from large boards to small pins hanging on everyone's chest. What dominates is the loneliness and the lack of colour, a vision of uniformity and limited contrast which is reinforced by clusters of straight lines stemming from architectural elements. Then the second visual experience occurs in the subway, where images become softer, slightly blurred and out of frame: as we encounter again the rigid, formal and artificial coldness which came upon us on the streets, our gaze is drawn towards a more human and intimate side in those photographs where life outcrops little by little on the picture surface.
