{"product_id":"versilia-3-2025-polaroid-12-7x13cm-n-a","title":"Versilia 3 - Polaroid","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Julien Drach’s, Trees of Rome opened at Connolly in 2023, his black and white pho\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etographs of Rome’s famous pines, felt like a quiet, sensory conversation between an art\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eist and a city. I am so happy to welcome him back three years later with The Long Road \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof Sand, a series in cinematic colour photographs of the Italian coast, that takes its title \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efrom Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1959 journey along the Italian shoreline for the magazine Suc\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecesso, driving a Fiat 1100. It was a chronicle of a coast being reshaped by the arrival of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eseaside tourism, and of Italy itself on the threshold of change.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBetween 2016 and 2025, Julien retraced that route, from Naples to Viareggio, by way of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe Amalfi Coast and Forte dei Marmi, making images on analogue film, medium for\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emat, polaroid and digital. The pictures are unhurried and sun-soaked, suspended some\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewhere between memory and observation: colours that recall postcards left too long in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe sun, transitory silhouettes along the shore, where a certain idea of la Dolce Vita has \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esomehow refused to leave the Italian coast alone. Through them, Julien extends Pasolini’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003egaze into something both new and beautifully familiar.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere is a particular pleasure in showing this new work at Connolly. Julien himself de\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003escribes the voyage as one that was born behind the wheel of an Italian sports car, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003estill emanates with the spirit of summers once spent between Capri and Portofino.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Isabel Ettedgui\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Long Road of Sand is presented for the first time at Connolly, 4 Clifford Street, 3rd of June to the 30th September 2026.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Connolly","offers":[{"title":"O\/S \/ 07JDRACH 018","offer_id":57676264079743,"sku":"00050120141080","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0211\/4220\/8561\/files\/VERSILIA3-POLAROID.jpg?v=1780490136","url":"https:\/\/www.connollyengland.com\/products\/versilia-3-2025-polaroid-12-7x13cm-n-a","provider":"Connolly","version":"1.0","type":"link"}