Riviere -2014- talks about an island and its inhabitants. Starting from a curious sighting of her grandfather Aquilino, Valentina Vannicola reconstructs a possible place between reality and imagination.

One morning in September 1991, her paternal grandparents took part in a boat trip off the coast of Rimini, on the Riviera romagnola. They were headed to the place where, 22 years before, the Italian State bombed the Isola delle Rose, a platform in the middle of the sea designed and declared independent by an italian engineer.

While they were out in the open sea, Aquilino spotted something offshore, he was sure that it was an islet, he told it to the men on board who denied the possibility that there was any. However, the man will always remain firm in his conviction, so, the story of the sighting and the connected issue of the Island of Roses were his small obsession. These images are a tribute to his tales.

VALENTINA VANNICOLA