Spillover

‘Africa’ is a word to be repeated slowly, to be resolved, before being a place. It is so for Marco Gualazzini, an Italian photojournalist who has linked his personal and artistic journey to the Congo, and it is so for Irene, the editor who, in a voice at first naïve, then amazed, and finally aware, remarks on the richness and contradictions that open up before her eyes in the editing room. Getting lost in the reality revealed by the images, between vague flashes of beauty and moments of sudden violence, Irene begins to wonder if it is really possible to understand a complex place like the Congo, and what we really see in the photography of an unknown world.
Between refugee camps and a land crippled by martial law, Colonel Charles’ troops and cassiterite mines, we will seek the answer to a simple question: do we already know Africa? Or do we not know it at all?