Doubleview Magazine

doubleview magazine editorial 2018
CREATED BY VALENTINA GUIDI OTTOBRI
Ph. Diego Diaz Marin

A solitary figure moves across a bridge on the outskirts of the city. The setting is unassuming — concrete, steel, and the muted geometry of urban periphery — yet the act of walking transforms it into a stage of observation and reflection. The bridge becomes a liminal space, suspended between here and elsewhere, past and future, interior and exterior. The woman’s presence is both intimate and monumental. Her gesture, her pace, the simple act of crossing, imbue the landscape with narrative tension. The periphery, often overlooked, emerges as a site of memory, longing, and quiet resistance. Shadows stretch across railings; light fractures along pavements; the city hums below, indifferent yet alive. This work meditates on transition — physical, psychological, and social. The bridge is more than structure; it is threshold, encounter, and passage. Through the simplicity of a walk, the campaign evokes universality: movement as agency, solitude as power, and the unnoticed urban landscape as witness to human presence. Crossing the Margin invites viewers to inhabit the periphery, to notice the poetry in overlooked spaces, and to recognize the resonance of gesture within a world of concrete and steel.