With GAME, the 2023 biennale of Foto/Industria is dedicated to the theme of the ‘game’.
Photography that documents industry and work, the basis of each edition of Foto/Industria, this year explores the production of objects and devices that fall within a vast and solid sector that has been able to reinvent itself over time to meet changes in taste and habits, and is always extremely receptive to technological innovation.

In 1977 Olivo Barbieri discovered an abandoned pinball machine warehouse a few dozen kilometres from his home and spent the following period repeatedly photographing it from every angle and perspective. These images of pinballs covered with other images act as repositories of the culture and imagery of an entire era, revealing its myths and desires, from Hollywood movies to the conquest of the skies and space, from the Western frontier to rock music and great sporting feats. Here, pinball machines are showcases that preserve the relics of future archaeology. It is as though the photographs were taken through a telescope that lets the viewer look into the past and capture its most profound moods.

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