Tra Berlino e Palm Beach is Alice Fiorilli’s photographic exhibition: a visual journey through the houses, warehouses and improvised buildings that characterise the Salento landscape, in Puglia, Italy.

Simple buildings transformed over time by personal touches, bright colours, tiles and improvised decorations. Small, everyday gestures that alter the architecture, making it unique. Quoting Cino Zucchi: ‘Hands of paint in vivid colours – like those of the sweatshirts bought from local market stalls – or tiles in subtle shades seek to give identity to a daily life that flows, blending habits and singularities, boredom and unexpected events.’

The photographs on display depict an everyday, free-spirited architecture, a world made up of small gestures and intuitive choices that shape lived-in spaces. From these colourful surfaces and spontaneous marks emerges an unexpected vitality: a direct and personal way of inhabiting and interpreting one’s surroundings. ‘…a lateral, domestic, sometimes harsh geography, in which Salve, Cutrofiano, Miggiano, Collepasso, Maglie, Corigliano d’Otranto, Minervino di Lecce and Spongano present themselves as places of an irregular, vernacular modernity, at times even dissonant, but precisely for this reason intensely true,’ writes Lorenzo Madaro.

The exhibition thus composes a small visual map of the territory, where every building becomes a clue to how the landscape is constantly reinterpreted by those who inhabit it.