MO'DINNA MO'DINNA (I wanna go back home)

MO’DINNA MO’DINNA (I wanna go back home) is the title of a work that explores the dynamics of travel in relation to photography, places, and their names. Inspired to create a new project on the conceptual legacy of explorations along the Via Emilia — starting from the writings of Gianni Celati and the conceptual research of Luigi Ghirri — Antonio Rovaldi begins an investigation into the topographical coordinates of two cities sharing the same name but located in two distant and distinct countries: one Modena in Italy and another Modena in the United States.
Rovaldi visited and physically traversed these places at different times, but the suggestion, the legacy, and the inspiration of the work go beyond pure photographic documentation. Instead, they dwell in proximity to and encounters with the uncertain and the unexpected. The images, presented as a photographic sequence, propose a possible re-reading of a geography that is elastic and connective.

The sixty black-and-white photographs of MO’DINNA MO’DINNA (I wanna go back home), arranged in a rigorous photographic sequence in dialogue with an audio recording, narrate these and other possible stories of two distant geographies, their past and present. The perspective is one that certainly reflects introspection and a journey through thoughts and perceptions, while simultaneously engaging with reality through the artist’s physical presence on-site.