LIVORNO DIASPORA
Life and visions of communities
“Until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born.
When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.”
Italo Calvino
A long-term transmedia project that documents and explores the foreign communities of Livorno, combining photography, video, sound, and immersive installation. Through rituals, celebrations, food, music, and private life, the work reveals a “city within the city” shaped by diasporic identities—a space where cultures recreate their habits and traditions.
The project investigates the presence, narrativesand cultural expression of these communities through domestic life, religious and social rituals, culinary practices, music, and everyday gestures. It captures how diasporic identities adapt and transform within the host city, shaping a cultural landscpe where habits, customs, and symbols from distant homelands are preserved, reimagined, and negotiated within the contemporary context.
