Exhibition event - Screening of 'Flegrea, A Future For Bagnoli'
FROM STILL TO MOTION
I am absolutely thrilled to announce that my first solo exhibition “Those who leave and those who stay” is having a cinematic upgrade.
Join us at Mixed Zoning for the screening of “Flegrea, A Future For Bagnoli”, an amazing docufilm directed by Stefano Romano which tells a story that deeply resonates with the themes explored in my work.
In Bagnoli, an industrial neighbourhood on the western outskirts of Naples squeezed between the beauty of the Phlegrean coastline and the ruins of the former Italsider steelworks, two siblings live out their last days as teenagers. They have big dreams and will have to decide whether to stay or leave.
The screening will be followed by Q&A with director Stefano Romano.
Free event with RSPV.
Photo exhibition in association with Head On Photo Festival
🗓️ Date: 23 November 2025
⏰ Time: 6pm
📍 Location: Mixed Zoning (11 Gale St, Brunwsick East, Melbourne)
🎟️ RSVP: https://events.humanitix.com/flegrea-a-future-for-bagnoli-screening
Photo Exhibition - Those who leave and those who stay
Exhibition statement
Part of an ongoing visual investigation on cultural landscapes and place narratives of working-class and urban cultures, Those who leave and those who stay is the first solo show by Naarm/Melbourne based and Italian born photographer Cristiano Capuano.
A collection of digital images shot in the eastern outskirts of Naples (Italy), this exhibition project takes the viewer around the blocks of public housing and the industrial areas of the working-class neighbourhood where the author traces back his family history.
With the title directly quoting one of the novels of Elena Ferrante's worldwide acclaimed Neapolitan Quartet – set in the very same neighbourhood pictured in these photos – this selection of urbanscapes articulates the author’s diasporic feelings of longing for “home” over almost fifteen years after departing his hometown.
A documentation of place as visual manifestation of an emotional memory, this exhibition interrogates how the forces of labour impact the ways working class communities have developed a sense of self and built their identities, myths, and narratives. Furthermore, it examines what kind of heritage they have shaped and what challenges the dissolution of these forces, along with the lack of adequate projects of economic transitions, present for these same communities.
Hosted by Mixed Zoning (Brunswick East) and associated with Head On Photo Festival 2025 Open Program, Those who leave and those who stay represents a fragment of an open-ended investigation that aims to transcend the borders of specific territories and personal recollections, hailing rather to shared (hi)stories of social, political, and anthropological transformations from the perspective of the margins of our modernity.