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Aisha Altenhofen
The Carrier was photographed at Villa Necchi Campiglio in Milan.
I worked with one restriction: every image had to be taken through the villa’s glass façades at the entrance. Moving between inside and outside, the sightlines slipped. At times, I could no longer tell from which side a photograph had been made. Interior and exterior folded into one another, producing a subtle doubling in the world.
The villa was built in the 1930s for an industrialist family and later taken over by the fascist administration. Mussolini, who reportedly admired its beauty and lived nearby, used it as a local headquarters. Today it operates as a museum, though this history appears only in passing in an accompanying publication. Because photography in the villa was permitted only in a limited way, I moved through it as a tourist. Each day I returned in a different outfit with the same camera, trying not to draw attention while working within those restrictions.
When I exhibited the series last summer, I added one photograph taken from inside the villa: a view through a serving cart once used by the staff. Placed within the sequence, the images seemed to pass through this cart, as if sliding through a projector.