BOOK: Fiamma Montezemolo-Hidden in Plain Sight, NERO

For any anthropologist, fieldwork represents both a professional obligation and a rite of passage. For Fiamma Montezemolo, Over the past three decades, moving across Italy, Mexico, and the United States, Fiamma Montezemolo has challenged the idea of individual research to value intersubjective and collaborative practices, crossing geopolitical, metaphorical, and disciplinary borders. Following the stages of Borges’ short story “El Etnógrafo” (1969), Fiamma Montezemolo’s publication “Hidden in Plain Sight” by NERO traces the itinerary of Montezemolo’s anthropological and artistic research, unveiling a vibrant archive comprising people encountered in person, places lived, research carried out in the field, and symbolic and physical trespassings that trained the artist’s gaze and empathy towards reality. Presenting an ample selection of artworks, archival and photographic research material, reprinted and original writings by the artists and/or other people, “Hidden in Plain Sight” is an auto-anthology carefully curated to reveal the rich tapestry of Montezemolo’s diverse work. -Dimitris Lempesis