The first solo exhibition by Aurelien Villette at Galleria Forni, is dedicated to an interesting photographic series entitled Dogma, which brings together fascinating shots of abandoned places of worship, taken in over fifty countries around the world.

The exhibition, organized in collaboration with Arte in Salotto by Camilla Prini, aims to represent the precarious link between the human desire to build places of worship destined to last forever and their actual state of preservation, demonstrating that nothing is static; everything changes and could disappear over time.

The fate of these buildings is tied to the torments of history, changing customs and traditions, the changing landscape, and the alteration of environmental balances. Places of worship are transformed into non-places, silent witnesses to civilization.

A lifelong traveler, Villette seeks out landscapes and architecture marked by the traces of humankind, he often sleeps in these abandoned places to find the perfect moment to take a shot. Thanks to his "nomadic" approach he is able to connect with the context, its nature and history, and synthesize it in his photographs. The result is a representation of the "spirit of the place," the soul of a territory, its profound essence, made up of all those typological, environmental, morphological, and historical characteristics that, taken together, identify it as unique.