Cables, workshops, and gestures of absolute precision flow invisibly beneath the community’s gaze: technological networks are the silent infrastructure that drives our daily lives. Bringing this world to light is SCATTI IN RETE. L’arte dei collegamenti invisibili (Connected Shots. The Art of Invisible Connections), brought to life by the cultural association dotART with the support of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region – Io Sono Friuli Venezia Giulia.

The project was born in partnership with two Trieste-based centres of excellence: Install.Pro, headquartered in San Dorligo della Valle and specialising in technological systems and high-security data networks, and Elettromatica S.r.l., active in the installation and maintenance of systems for public and civic buildings.

At the creative heart of the project is the artistic residency of Alice Zorzin, a photographer under 35 working alongside mentor Vincenzo Labellarte, an experienced photographer known for his industrial narratives and his work on territorial identity. The project creates a genuine opportunity for cultural production by weaving artistic practice directly into working processes. Zorzin will spend a week in close collaboration with the technicians: inside the workshops and out on job sites, a spontaneous photographic set takes shape, with the workers themselves guiding the lens through the complexity of electrical panels and the intricacy of cable installations.

The resulting body of work will transform cables and systems into graphic traces, revealing the choreographic precision of manual labour. Photographed on site, Zorzin and the workers co-author a visual journey that uncovers the hidden infrastructure, giving back value and dignity to the everyday gestures that keep it running.

The production will culminate in an exhibition installed within Install.Pro’s own premises. At the same time, the project will take to the road: magnetic prints applied to the company’s vans will turn the fleet into galleries in motion travelling the roads of Friuli Venezia Giulia. The launch event will feature a performance by the Conservatorio Tartini di Trieste, which will sample the rhythms of production and electricity, before the project makes its official debut at Trieste Photo Days 2026. The entire experience will then be gathered into a dedicated editorial dossier, available in both digital and print form, meant to preserve the visual memory of this encounter between technology and art.

Alice Zorzin (Photographer in Residence) is a photographer and visual researcher. After completing her MA in Art History, she chose to devote herself entirely to photography. In her visual narratives, Zorzin investigates how people respond to and interact with their surroundings, both as individuals and as communities. Her research focuses on themes such as cultural identity, memory, belonging, the past, and tradition, combining ethnographic research, archival materials, personal testimonies, and contemporary visual storytelling. Her work is informed by a deep engagement with mountain environments, rural landscapes, and marginal territories, explored as spaces where traces of the past continue to shape the present and the cultural landscape retains a strong connection to human presence. Her work has been selected for the Felix Schoeller Photo Award, exhibited in Italy and Croatia, and published in outlets including PhotoVogue, Artribune, and Exibart. In recent years she has taken part in several residencies and received artistic research commissions from public and private institutions, including the Italian Ministry of Labour and Social Policy and Fondazione LavoroPerlaPersona. Alongside her photographic practice, she works as a lecturer and curator. She has contributed to several exhibition projects, among them Paesi Perduti. Appunti per un viaggio nell’Italia dimenticata at the MART in Rovereto, and Cinquant’anni dopo. In Valle dei Mòcheni con Flavio Faganello in Palù del Fersina.
Since 2026 she has been lecturer in the History and Techniques of Photography at the University of Trieste.

Vincenzo Labellarte (Mentor) first came to photography during his early years at university, studying darkroom development and printing. He later moved to Rome, where he completed his degree in Architecture and deepened his engagement with documentary photography, focusing on long-term projects. He has promoted and taken part in collective projects, and in 2017 published Limine, edited by Massimo Siragusa. He has collaborated with and been published in the weekly l’Espresso, AR Magazine — the journal of the Ordine degli Architetti di Roma — and has published in Int/Ar Journal of the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2014 he moved to Friuli, where he began a series of personal research projects on the region, and in 2024 received the Friuli Venezia Giulia Fotografia award from CRAF, the Centro di Ricerca e Archiviazione Fotografica. He currently works in architectural and museum photography, runs workshops in photographic technique and visual language, and continues his personal research on landscape and territory.

SCATTI IN RETE. L’arte dei collegamenti invisibili (Connected Shots. The Art of Invisible Connections) is a project created by the cultural association dotART, made possible with the support of the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia – Io Sono Friuli Venezia Giulia, in partnership with Install.Pro and Elettromatica S.r.l., and in collaboration with the Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Tartini di Trieste.