“Asmara Dream” is a beautiful book with pictures of the Italian colonial architecture of the Eritrean capital Asmara. The book was made between 2006 and 2008 with a Polaroid camera SRL 690 by Italian Artist and Photographer Marco Barbon.

Marco describes that his pictures emphasize the idea of a suspension of time and history, between a colonial past that has left deep scars on the face of the city and a present that seems stuck in an endless waiting. The Artist compares his visits to Asmara with the experience of dreaming. Dreams are in a sense an interruption and a breach in the fabric of time.

Usually, dreams seem to have a different rhythm and course making them more subtle and abstract, as if they were suspended in a limbo outside of time. Marco believes that Asmara captures the same feeling at every step one makes in the city, from the bars and cafes, facades of buildings to even a man reading his newspaper.

Marco Barbon

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