STEFANO GRAZIANI. Reality Show

​The Teatro dell’architettura Mendrisio (TAM) of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) presents, from November 14, 2025 to March 29, 2026, “STEFANO GRAZIANI. Reality Show”.

​The exhibition, curated by Francesco Zanot, presents a selection of works by Stefano Graziani, some pre-existing and others previously unseen, which engage in a dialogue with each other without referring to a single theme. Architecture, objects, nature, cities, people and much more populate his photographs without ever claiming a dominant role but rather appearing as elements of a complex, layered plot. Decipherable to varying degrees, these works by Graziani have been brought together primarily because they belong to the same historic moment, the same time: an open, suspended, questioned time. Dysfunctional by choice, these photographs elude the logic of the useful and the necessary, leaving the viewer’s gaze and thoughts to wander among deviations, details and clues. Graziani works against our expectations, constructing his works as open pictures (shots) that induce dispersion, the proliferation of alternative narratives and escape. Everything you see in these photographs is real, even if sometimes it does not seem so. Graziani reflects on the status of photography today, within the vortex that brings documentation and simulation together and causes them to clash. His works are simultaneously proof and refutation.