In Marcello Coslovi’s ongoing photographic project, The Wrong Side Of The Tracks, the artist delves into a specific region of his hometown in Modena where migrants have been segregated into a suburban neighbourhood. The series is a study on collaborative staged documentary practice, as the artist builds a close relationship with those photographed, creating a link (sometimes without the need of the camera) to really understand the experience of those who migrate from their homeland. Therefore, photography becomes the language used to speak about the experience of migration.
Located across Modena’s railway – the town’s area of highest deprivation -this community is segregated. As the Ghanaian community is the second largest community living in Italy, the artist began talking, learning, and understanding the structures that led specifically the Ghanaian community to relocate. The series is an exercise in suspending judgement, using photography’s questionable history and relationship with documentary practice to really platform discussions and understandings of dislocation that we would otherwise misunderstand and misinterpret.