Juventus vs Torino - Residency w/ Serie A The first Derby della Mole through the lens of nss sports

The result of our latest episode of Residency with Alessandro Simonetti, on the occasion of the Derby della Mole at the Allianz Stadium, is an interpretation balanced between performative sports photography and a technological glitch, where the continuous shooting—like in the sequential photography of Eadweard Muybridge—is not only used to explain the athletic gesture, but becomes a pretext to explore an aesthetic line that recalls corrupted images, frozen streaming, and, at the same time, the approach of the Futurists, who saw the destruction of materiality in the sporting gesture (as in Boccioni’s "Dynamism of a Football Player"). The athlete’s movement is not merely the subject, but is rendered through the interpenetration of planes, the simultaneity of vision, and fragmentation: elements that show how “motion and light destroy the materiality of bodies” (Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting, 1910). The final image is therefore not an imitation of reality, but a dynamic sensation of movement.

The beauty of football photography in Residency, the monthly nss sports format that tells the story of football through the subjective perspectives of photographers chosen specifically for each project, lies in the art of conveying dynamism even in a match that didn’t offer many thrills. Alessandro Simonetti’s technique, however, captures all the emotions that the game itself failed to provide.