All the Feels, within an Evolving Landscape is a site-specific project by Ramak Fazel realised for Volvo Studio Milano, curated by Viasaterna, in collaboration with Fondazione Istituto dei Ciechi di Milano Onlus and Portanuova.

Ramak Fazel, an American photographer of Iranian origin, turns his artistic gaze once again towards a portion of the sky of Milan, where he lived and worked for fifteen years between 1994 and 2009. On this occasion, Fazel has chosen a particular location, Piazza Alvar Aalto, at the intersection of Via Melchiorre Gioia and Viale della Liberazione, where the entrance to Volvo Studio Milano opens up, as a vantage point over an evolving urban landscape.

From this belvedere overlooking Portanuova, a vibrant neighbourhood in continuous evolution, emblem of an urban redevelopment unprecedented in Europe in terms of cultural, social and environmental impact, Fazel frames a constellation of buildings that, in his view, define a new contemporary city landscape. The result is a wide-ranging and articulated project that consists of a public environmental installation during Milano Art Week and Milano Design Week and continues in a photographic exhibition in the interior spaces of Volvo Studio Milano.


The installation in Piazza Alvar Aalto is an invitation to observe through five aluminium viewers, a reinterpretation of panoramic telescopes that direct, focus and concentrate vision on five peculiar subjects, or rather, five portions of architecture, which are, moving the gaze from left to right: UniCredit Tower, Bosco Verticale, BAM - Biblioteca degli Alberi Milano, Palazzo Lombardia and the Church of San Gioachimo.

Ramak Fazel wanted this project, dedicated to the gaze and guided discovery of a particular landscape of the city, to become an experience that could also involve blind or visually impaired people. Thanks to the collaboration with Fondazione Istituto dei Ciechi di Milano Onlus and its didactic workshop, led by Aurelio Sartorio, the installation also consists of tactile scale models of the five buildings made of plastic material. The texts that complete the descriptive table of the five models, edited by the architectural historian Maria Vittoria Capitanucci, are in contrasting colours, readable by visually impaired people, as well as in Braille.

All the Feels, within an Evolving Landscape continues inside Volvo Studio Milano, specifically in the office area, with an exhibition featuring works by Fazel from the archive-work Milan Unit to the exhibition of new works, following the fil rouge of a travelling artist who has never stopped documenting reality without prejudice.

All the Feels, within an Evolving Landscape
Piazza Alvar Aalto & Volvo Studio Milan, via Melchiorre Gioia corner Viale della Liberazione

Opening Friday 4 April, 6 PM
Open every day until 15 April 2025 from 10 AM to 8 PM
Finissage Tuesday 15 April, 7 PM talk at Volvo Studio Milano

The exhibition at Volvo Studio Milano continues and can be visited until 27 September 2025, Saturdays from 10 AM to 8 PM