The cell of modern society, the city, is no longer considered merely a space.
It is an autonomous ecosystem, a habitat comprised of public space, buildings, vehicles, the people moving within it, but above all, the ways in which all these entities relate to one another.
Barad, a leading thinker of Post-Humanism, introduces the concept of Intra-Action, explaining to us that entities do not pre-exist their relations; rather, they emerge through them at the very moment they are formed.
This constitutes the subject of my research: How do city dwellers relate to one another, and how do they relate to their city? How do these relationships construct both their own identity and the identity of the city? How, out of all this, does the contemporary way of life in Europe of 2026 emerge?
This project's name comes from another Post-Humanist concept, the "Assemblage", which describes "a collection of people, objects, spaces, discourses, emotions, and materials that are temporarily linked to create a single, unified entity."
Assemblage consists exclusively of candid street photographs, taken during two trips to Italy between April 2025 and January 2026.
