A photographic investigation into the attacks that struck Italy from the 1970s to the early 2000s. The subjects of the photographs are the means of transportation involved in these events, all that remains today in tangible form.

How can one recount violence, hatred, terror? Five years, hundreds of hours of research and waiting and listening, the silence of work carried out in solitude and in sharing with those who remember, who remained, who suffered.

Fabio Mantovani’s photographic project is centered on the memory of the period between the 1970s and the early 2000s, during which Italy was the victim of a series of attacks of various origins, much discussed and not all fully clarified.

The photographic subjects are the means of transportation involved in these episodes. There are two motivations for this choice: to show the raw reality of the remains, captured in a nocturnal atmosphere that makes the material evidence starkly clear; and because of the closeness and familiarity each of us has with these vehicles—cars, aircraft, and trains. Thus an ontology of violence is formed, condensed into photographs that cannot easily be removed from memory. Just like what they recount.