Light Exercises for the Spirit
Krisztián Éder
24x30 cm
112 pages
Hard cover
Editing and art direction by Tommaso Parrillo
Graphic design by Ilaria Miotto
Published in September 2026
ISBN 979-12-80177-70-4
Witty #120
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Light Exercises for the Spirit brings together photographs made between 2016 and 2025.
Rather than being conceived as a single project, the work developed gradually through a number of distinct sequences made over nearly a decade.
Moving between family photographs, portraits, landscapes and everyday observations, the book unfolds through association rather than chronology. Images echo across sequences, places, years and emotional states: domestic interiors sit alongside quiet landscapes, moments of intimacy dissolve into absence, and ordinary gestures acquire new significance through their proximity to one another.
The book grew out of a need to process the events that shaped these years, and the ways they altered my understanding of time, intimacy and home. Approached with quiet curiosity, the photographs became a way of remaining with these experiences without reducing them to a single meaning.
Neither memoir nor documentary, Light Exercises for the Spirit unfolds through the fragmented logic of memory, where sorrow and hope, closeness and distance, coexist rather than resolve.
Rivoluzione
Massimo Sordi
24x30 cm
48+20 pages
Soft cover
Edited by Stefania Rössl, Tommaso Parrillo
Design by Damiano Fraccaro/ Otium Studio
Text by Fabio Matano, Stefania Rössl, Samuele Vincenti
Published in July 2026
ISBN 979-12-80177-73-5
Witty #118
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Rivoluzione by Massimo Sordi approaches the Italian coastline as a field of interacting forces shaped by continuous transformation. The cliffs of Ortona become the site of an observation that registers the coexistence of erosion and persistence, disintegration and resistance, within a balance constantly exposed to its own redefinition. Landscape emerges not as a fixed or measurable form, but as a temporal materiality in perpetual transformation, in which every configuration retains traces of its constitutive instability.
Attentive to the geomorphological nature of the site, the photographic image renders perceptible a stratified temporality in which different scales of time overlap and interfere with one another. Rock surfaces, shaped by the action of the sea and atmospheric agents, emerge as material archives, sites of sedimentation where the territory retains the traces of the processes that traverse it. Erosion thus appears not merely as a physical phenomenon, but as a critical device that unsettles the very notion of stable, permanent, and completed form. Landscape reveals itself as a transitional condition, continually reconfigured through the interaction of processes of accumulation, subtraction, and collapse. Terrestrial movements and cosmic cycles introduce a further shift in scale, expanding the relationship between territory, time, and representation. Images drawn from the astronomical writings of Galileo Galilei and from Donato Rossetti’s Sistemi del Mondo d’Aristotile, Copernico e Ticone introduce an additional layer of interpretation, in which the very notion of
“revolution” acquires physical, geological, and cosmological meanings simultaneously.
This publication is part of the 'Whes the Sea Moves In series' and has been funded by European Union, NextGenerationEU, as part of the PNRR project “National Biodiversity Future Center” M4C2 I1.4 of the National Research Council
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Atlas Undarum
Giulia Parlato
24x30 cm
48+20 pages
Soft cover
Edited by Stefania Rössl, Tommaso Parrillo
Design by Damiano Fraccaro/ Otium Studio
Text by Fabio Matano, Stefania Rössl, Samuele Vincenti
Published in July 2026
ISBN 979-12-80177-71-1
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Atlas Undarum by Giulia Parlato removes the sea from its phenomenological and landscape evidence, reframing it as a knowledge device that is operationally reproducible and modelable. The attention to the experimental laboratory space — itself the subject of the photographs — does not merely represent
the phenomenon, but reorganises its conditions of intelligibility through processes of scaled reconstruction. Wave motion is thus segmented, discretised, and rendered analytically accessible through experimental setups that isolate individual processual components, translating the continuity of the phenomenon into operational sequences.
Photographic images escape the distinction between documentation and abstraction, operating as hybrid surfaces. Sediments, water, and miniaturised elements constitute a visual field in which experiment, model, and landscape no longer appear as separate categories, instead assuming the form of transitional states within a single material and semiotic configuration. What is revealed is not the representation of a given landscape, but rather the set of operations through which it is progressively constructed as an object of observation and knowledge. The image thus becomes the site of a continuous negotiation between physical phenomena, technical systems, and interpretative practices, making visible the mediating processes that structure the production of scientific knowledge. The landscape takes shape through a constellation of devices, measurements, and visualisation procedures that progressively articulate its conditions of legibility and interpretation.
This publication is part of the 'Whes the Sea Moves In series' and has been funded by European Union, NextGenerationEU, as part of the PNRR project “National Biodiversity Future Center” M4C2 I1.4 of the National Research Council
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Layers
Giorgio Di Noto
24x30 cm
48+16 pages
Soft cover
Edited by Stefania Rössl, Tommaso Parrillo
Design by Damiano Fraccaro/ Otium Studio
Text by Fabio Matano, Stefania Rössl, Samuele Vincenti
Published in July 2026
ISBN 979-12-80177-75-9
Witty #115
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Layers by Giorgio Di Noto addresses coastal erosion by moving away from the direct representation of its morphological effects on the landscape and focusing instead on the systems through which such transformations are observed, measured, interpreted, and simulated. The project adopts a perspective that moves across different sites of evidence production — from sediment analysis laboratories and hydrodynamic simulation facilities to digital environments for monitoring and modelling — bringing together heterogeneous scientific practices that contribute to the contemporary construction of the coastal landscape. The work also includes a series of images devoted to the sea surface itself, where wave motion conveys the force of the natural phenomenon in its most immediate and observable form. This dimension of direct recording is placed in dialogue with the spaces in which technological and infrastructural systems make the phenomenon intelligible.
A broader reflection on the relationship between image, science, and environment emerges from the project, which examines the role of photography through the lens of techno-scientific research. Representation no longer coincides with the simple recording of reality, but with the elaboration of epistemic processes through which landscape is transformed into a measurable and governable sur- face. Coastal erosion thus becomes a cultural and cognitive framework through which to observe the ways contemporary territory is analysed, simulated, and administered.
This publication is part of the 'Whes the Sea Moves In series' and has been funded by European Union, NextGenerationEU, as part of the PNRR project “National Biodiversity Future Center” M4C2 I1.4 of the National Research Council
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Lagoonal Capriccio
Matteo de Mayda, Amina Chouairi
24x30 cm
48+26 pages
Soft cover
Editing by Stefania Rössl, Tommaso Parrillo
Design by Damiano Fraccaro/ Otium Studio
Text by Fabio Matano, Stefania Rössl, Samuele Vincenti, Amina Chouairi
Published in July 2026
ISBN 979-12-80177-77-3
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Lagoonal Capriccio by Matteo de Mayda and Amina Chouairi explores the Venice Lagoon as a complex hydro-environmental system in which natural processes and human-made infrastructures are historically and functionally entangled, to the point of forming a territorial matrix that can hardly be reduced to discrete
components.
The project focuses on the Casse di Colmata — land areas produced through reclamation processes and industrial expansion strategies that shaped the Lagoon throughout the twentieth century and which today, largely decommissioned or repurposed, operate as transitional territorial devices. These are unstable and liminal spaces in which erosion, sedimentation, contamination, and biological recolonisation continuously intertwine, producing provisional environmental configurations in constant redefinition.
Within this specific territorial framework — also explored through archival materials — the Lagoonal landscape appears to gradually withdraw from the traditional representational imagery centred on the historical and monumental dimension of Venice. Archival images do not function here as merely illustrative or documentary materials, but rather as critical tools capable of articulating the processual and stratified dimension of the territory, making legible the morphological, economic, and political transformations that have shaped its current condition. Through the confrontation between historical materials and new photographic productions, a complex temporality is revealed, in which traces of industrial planning, infrastructural residues, and ecological dynamics coexist within the same visual field.
This publication is part of the 'Whes the Sea Moves In series' and has been funded by European Union, NextGenerationEU, as part of the PNRR project “National Biodiversity Future Center” M4C2 I1.4 of the National Research Council
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