Life and death in Venice - A photography series

Lica Cecato is a Brazilian musician and visual artist. She lives between Rio, Venice and Tokyo. Everywhere, for a year, she has seen the world enter this strange darkness. She tells her story in text and images.

I enjoy walking sometimes in the dark, sometimes in the light. Some streets are so narrow that it becomes impossible. I give up and start thinking of these alleys (calle) as tunnels because many of them stop at a dead end, right on a canal. The city was built for those who own a boat. We walk on the water, a kind of miracle.

I walk every day through the empty streets of Venice, a city I have been visiting and loving for four decades. I made a series of photos on Fabriano paper for the exhibition Reflections (Reflexos e Reflexões) in Rio de Janeiro, at the Martha Pagy Escritório de Arte. It opened on…