Generazione Vulcano
Italy
2025
Unpredictable, agitated, impulsive are adjectives that may describe both a teenager and volcanic activity. Can youth’s incandescence and the unpredictability of a volcanic eruption talk to each other?
Since 2021 Giulia Frigieri photographed young people from the volcanic archipelago of the Aeolian Islands, Sicily, exploring how to represent their symbolic cohabitation.
Generazione Vulcano is a project that aims to illustrate the most complex moment in life, adolescence, in a specific geographic context, by showing the freedom with which these young people embrace life vis à vis such unpredictable events in contrast with the scientific gaze and its need to monitor, control and tame the eruptions’ unpredictability – all in a palpably tense atmosphere.
Generazione Vulcano has had the support of various cultural partners such as Amaneï in Salina, The Possibile Island in Vulcano, the volcanology team of the Université Clermont Auvergne and the Laboratorio Geofisica Sperimentale of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Florence.
With the support of the Italian cultural institute of Paris
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About the artist
Born in 1990 in Italy, Giulia Frigieri works between Italy, France and the United Kingdom. Her work focuses on adolescence in geographically and socially hostile regions, creating a fragile and authentic portrait of modern youth.
With a degree in anthropology and media from Goldsmiths, University of London, she joined, in 2016, a visual storytelling programme at the Aarhus media and journalism school in Denmark. She currently lives between Paris and Marseilles.