Italians
For Images Gibellina, Bruce Gilden brings street photography back to its roots: the public space. Born amid urban noise, his images escape the frame of the print to become architecture, turning the city into an open-air gallery. A master of direct, uncompromising portraiture, Gilden draws raw intensity from fleeting encounters: faces, gestures and stances reveal the pulse of the city and the uncertainty of everyday life. In Gibellina—a utopian city shaped by concrete and the memory of its earthquake—his work gains new resonance. Installed inside Consagra’s unfinished theatre, the photographs form a visual narrative of stark gazes and fragmentary stories. Taken in Palermo, Rome, Milan or specially commissioned in Sicily, these images portray contemporary Italy with clarity and force, transforming the street into both a mirror and a promise of renewal.
