Veronica Gaido

Veronica Gaido is a photographer from Tuscany, in the Versilia region. Her visual journey began in Milan, where she studied at the Italian Institute of Photography, refining her practice through further studies in leading European visual arts schools. After gaining early professional experience, in 2002 she held her first solo exhibition „Sabbie Mobili“, curated by Maurizio Vanni.

Her work blends photography with video, aerial imagery, and conceptual research, leading to acclaimed projects across India, Morocco, and Europe. She has held solo exhibitions in prestigious venues such as La Casa dei Tre Oci (Venice), Museo San Salvatore in Lauro (Rome), Palazzo Quartieri (Forte dei Marmi), and Il Chiostro di Sant’Agostino (Pietrasanta), as well as in international locations including New York, London, Paris, and Rabat.

With a distinctive style that explores space, silence, and visual storytelling, Gaido continues to trace poetic narratives through architecture, memory, and the subtle dialogue between light and form.

City Architecture Patterns
Following the visionary path of Marco Polo, photographer Veronica Gaido invites us on a journey across cities that are both real and imagined. In City Architecture Patterns, Venice, Xi’an, Shanghai, and Hong Kong emerge not as fixed images, but as living, breathing memories, emotional traces suspended between time and space. Just as Marco Polo departed from Venice to recount both real and imagined cities, Gaido transform iconic places them into layered visions, where time is suspended and space becomes language. The photograph is to travel thrugh time without ever truly moving.

Venice marks the beginning of the journey, the liquid dream. Venice dissolves into water and light, a city suspended between water and sky, where reflections multiply and reality blurs. As the historical point of departure for Marco Polo’s voyage, it becomes both origin and metaphor. In Veronica Gaido’s work, Venice is fragile, beauty, dream and departure. Xi’an represent the Ancient Roots of China. It is the starting point of the silk road, being the terracotta warriors a silent presence of time. The city becomes a meditation on immortality, collective identity, and the quiet persistence of history. Shanghai / Hong Kong are the accelerated present. Hong Kong vibrates like a vertical dream, with its skycrapers as urban fabric and infinite metropolies. The city is a pulsing organism, expressing repetition, speed, loss and reconstruction of identity.

Gaido embraces photography as performance. Her works exist between abstraction and presence, asking the viewer to abandon certainty and enter a space of poetic perception. Echoing Coleridge’s idea of “the suspension of disbelief,” her images become visual thoughts—frames in which the background speaks, the form dissolves, and nothing is merely decorative. In her hands, photography becomes not a document, but an experience.

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