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.
The area has been shaped for centuries by bradyseism, the rising and sinking of the ground. In recent years, this movement has become increasingly palpable again through a rise in earthquakes. Yet daily life continues, precisely there, in one of the most densely populated volcanic areas in Europe. 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 different times exist side by side: ancient remains, contemporary buildings, tourism, memory and the continuous movement of the ground.