In Campi Flegrei, west of Naples, Hans Wilschut is working on a slowly expanding photographic research into a landscape that is never entirely still. Beneath residential districts, ruins, coastal roads and archaeological remains, a volcanic subsoil continues to move, impossible to ignore. The place breathes history, but also unrest.

For centuries, the area has been shaped by bradyseism, the rising and sinking of the ground. In recent years, this movement has become more tangible again through an increase in earthquakes. Still, everyday life continues, right there, in one of Europe’s most densely populated volcanic areas.

Wilschut is not looking for the spectacular image of threat, but for the quiet tension of a place where the earth itself remains present. Campi Flegrei appears as a landscape in which layers of time slide over one another: ancient remains, contemporary buildings, tourism, memory and a subsoil that keeps speaking, though mostly in a low voice.