“Amor Vacui” Is a series of photographic works focusing on modern architecture made on fragments of terracotta bricks. This project documents the first buildings based on the rationalist principle of eliminating all unnecessary ornamentation or decoration, both on facades and within interior spaces. This pursuit aimed to achieve smooth, white surfaces on buildings, symbolising the material and spiritual aspirations of the humanist project in modern architecture and urbanism.
The title of the series derives from the Latin expression horror vacui (fear of emptiness), used in art history to describe the need to fill empty spaces with some form of design or imagery. Therefore, the term amor vacui might be used to reference the opposite tendency: an attraction towards the absence of images or objects on surfaces or in empty spaces within architecture.
