The exhibition was divided into four major sections. Volti (Faces) collects giant posters with the faces of Haitian men,women and children, who seem to be questioning the visitor, without expecting an answer. The section entitled Port-au-Prince shows glimpses of the capital, characterized by the evident construction of reality. Stephenson follows a pictorial logic and uses overlaps, fading and combinations of pictures, games of shapes, lights and contrasts which deform the object and result in an almost surreal character. The Terremoto (Earthquake) section displays pictures which were taken in the days immediately following the earthquake that devastated Haiti on January 12, 2010. The sequence is intensively and almost obsessively articulated and reproduced the sensation of incredulity and bewilderment towards the event. This is one of the most hidden elements of Stephenson’s poetics. The section entitled Tende (Huts) is dedicated to the dramatic, but poetical, reportage on the tent shelters that were built in the aftermath of the earthquake. These are ephemeral enveloping structures, which worked as a barrier against the fear of the great natural determinisms and the sensation of anguished emptiness left by souls in pain. Paesaggi is the last section of the exhibition and it voluntarily introduces a "break" from the narrative sequence of the previous sections. The architectures of man are evidently replaced by natural architectures and also by architectures of the supernatural - as Stephenson himself seems to suggest. One perceives a painful indefiniteness that is suspended between the fragile oasis of inner searching and the inability to transcend the great forces of nature and society. 

For a brief overview of the exhibition, please click on the following link:
http://robertostephenson.com/lugano/gallery/index.html